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Mind the gap: the $1.6 trillion energy transition risk

Carbon Tracker Initiative
This report delves into the challenges and degrees of risk facing the oil, gas and thermal coal industry under three different climate scenarios. It was conducted as part of the ET Risk Project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Research
8 March 2018

Investing in the green economy: Sizing the opportunity

FTSE Russell
This paper emphasises the capacity of the green economy in meeting environmental objectives in decision-making processes. FTSE Russell advocate data as crucial to investors to monitor industry and company-specific contributions to the economy and to assess opportunities in new green products and services.
Research
15 December 2020

Healthy competition: Why the safest bet for investors is healthier retail markets and how to get there

ShareAction
This second briefing report explores ShareAction’s Healthy Markets campaign, featuring the UK food retailers most exposed to the childhood obesity agenda. The brief is designed to inform and support investor stewardship and company engagement through an analysis of their disclosure policies and practices for healthy eating.
Research
11 March 2020

Point of no returns: A ranking of 75 of the world’s largest asset managers’ approaches to responsible investment

ShareAction
In this first of a series of reports released by ShareAction, 75 of the worlds largest and most influential asset management companies from across Europe, the United States, Africa and the Asia Pacific are ranked according to an analysis of their performance on stewardship, transparency and governance.
Research
31 March 2020

How to report on the SDGs: What good looks like and why it matters

Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler International (KPMG International)
Corporate action towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be fundamental to achieve necessary progress. This report aims to guide corporations on how and why to report on the SDGs and gives an overview of current progress based on the top 250 global companies.
Research
1 February 2018

How can investors help prevent corporate policy capture?

Preventable Surprises
This project aims to make corporate political capture a central component of investors’ approach to ESG stewardship and integration. It leverages information on the state of play for key sectors and shares lessons learned from past investor engagements, including a 12-step process for ESG investors to address negative corporate lobbying.
Research
24 May 2021

Time for AIA to prove their climate credentials

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
IEEFA report highlights AIA's discrepancies on its climate change commitments as visible from the carbon footprint of its portfolio. AIA, one of the world's largest financial firms and one of Asia's largest insurers, is estimated to hold up to US$6 billion in coal and coal-fired investments despite commitment to three global climate accords.
Research
31 December 2020

How markets price ESG: Have changes in ESG scores affected stock prices?

MSCI Inc.
This report takes a statistical look at the impact of historical ESG score shifts on stock prices valuation. It further determines financial performance implications for a broad spectrum of companies based on an ESG valuation curve.
Research
30 November 2018

Global investor study: The rise of the sustainable investor

Schroders
The report highlights key findings from Schroder’s Global Investor Study. It provides an insight into global investor attitudes towards sustainable investing and the obstacles preventing widespread adoption of sustainable investing. The report emphasises the notion that sustainable investing is gaining momentum around the world.
Research
31 October 2020

Responsible investing and financial performance

Responsible Investment Association Australasia
The body of evidence continues to stack up – nationally and globally - showing that responsible investments typically achieve stronger risk-adjusted financial performance than their peers, consistently outperforming against benchmarks over short-term and long-term time frames. This fact sheet details the performance of Australian and New Zealand investment products, superannuation and impact investments.
Research
28 February 2021

Lifting the lid on fintech: What does new technology mean for a financial system that serves people and planet?

The Finance Innovation Lab
Addresses new developments in financial technology (fintech) through alternative data and explains how fintech has transformed the structure of financial services. Outlines new risks to the finance industry concerning democracy, sustainability, justice and resilience. While exploring opportunities to transform fintech for good through seven principles to guide financial policymaking and regulation.
Research
1 December 2020

Financing sustainability: Asia Pacific embraces the ESG challenge

The Economist Intelligence Unit
Explores the drivers of sustainable finance growth in Asia Pacific and the factors constraining it. The analysis was determined through parallel surveys - one of investors and one of issuers. The research found that the biggest constraint for sustainable finance was a lack of bankable sustainable projects.
Research
26 February 2020

Incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into fixed income investment

The World Bank
This report aims to promote strategies for including environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in investment decisions within fixed income. It provides an overview on sustainable investing in fixed income across five core areas building on research, practical experiences and a literature review to inform findings.
Research
30 April 2018

Sustainability: The bond that endures - Tools and insights for ESG investing in fixed income

BlackRock
BlackRock considers four key areas for environmental, social and governance (ESG) in fixed income: sustainable building blocks such as ESG indexes, a lens for considering the sustainability of government bond issuers, the financial relevance/materiality of ESG characteristics across different industries, and how to build sustainable portfolios using fixed income.
Research
19 November 2019

In pursuit of deep impact and market-rate returns: KL Felicitas Foundation's journey

New Philanthropy Capital
The report is an update of NPC’s 2015 review of the KL Felicitas Foundation, Investing for impact: Practical tools, lessons, and results. It explores how the KL Felicitas Foundation’s impact investing portfolio balances social impact with financial return.
Research
30 April 2018

Measuring the economic impact of short-termism

McKinsey Global Institute
Measures corporate long- and short-termism systematically. Assesses and quantifies the effects of each approach on corporate financial performance and microeconomic growth. Findings show that long-term approaches outperform short-term companies on key economic and financial metrics.
Research
28 February 2017
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