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Corporate Strategy
Corporate strategy involves the comprehensive plan a company employs to achieve its long-term objectives, encompassing decisions on resource allocation, market participation, and competitive positioning. Integrating sustainability into corporate strategy enables organisations to create long-term stakeholder value. This approach offers advantages such as enhancing brand value, meeting consumer demands, increasing efficiency, attracting top talent, and opening new market opportunities.
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The Russell Family Foundation
The Russell Family Foundation was founded to create a quiet, sustained, positive impact in the larger community. Their vision for impacting others is seen through their investment in targeting social, environmental and financial goals.
Multi-asset investments: Managing sustainability from a total portfolio perspective
Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into existing portfolios involves considerations beyond benchmark tracking and diversification such as budgets for governance and risk as well as portfolio impacts of different types of ESG implementation. The report explores ESG portfolio integration as well as outlining trade-offs in portfolio management.
Inflection Point
Inflection Point is a research and data-driven investment advisory boutique, providing environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainable investment research that supports La Française Group’s portfolio managers across equities and fixed income.
JUST Capital
JUST Capital is an independent American non-profit that measures and ranks companies on issues such as fair pay, equal treatment of workers, contribution to strong communities, and commitment to a healthy planet. It tracks and engages with corporations on how they perform on issues that are important to the public.
Novethic
Novethic specialise in sustainable finance research and offer the financial industry resources to facilitate the transitions to a sustainable, low carbon and inclusive economy. They offer services and resources to assist finance professionals with research, ESG labelling schemes and capacity development support for advocates of sustainability.
From risk to resilience: Engaging with corporates to build adaptive capacity
This report outlines how investors can identify whether certain companies are at a heightened risk as a result of extreme weather events. Additionally, it addresses how communications between corporate companies and investors can mitigate these risks and respond accordingly, thus promoting better adaptability to the financial risks of climate change.
Four Twenty Seven
Four Twenty Seven is the leading provider of market intelligence on the economic risk of climate change. It tackles the physical risk head-on by identifying the locations of corporate production and retail sites around the world and their vulnerability to climate change hazards such as droughts, floods, sea-level rise, tropical storms.
Mapping of global responsible investment best practices
Responsible investment is gaining momentum globally as an integral part of asset management, incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations into investment decision-making. Inflection Point Capital Management analyses the efforts by a number of asset owners to implement responsible investment processes, and provides best practices for institutional investors to follow.
Schroders
Schroders manages over £500 billion in assets, providing products and services across equities, fixed income, multi-asset, private assets and alternatives. They also provide wealth management services. Schroders operates from 35 locations across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a leading global investment bank founded and headquartered in New York City. They operate in 41 countries worldwide and provide investment banking, investment management, research, securities and wealth management services to individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments.
GMO
GMO is an investment management firm operating across a range of asset classes around the world. All GMO's investment teams apply a long-term, valuation-based investment philosophy. GMO believe environmental, social and governance factors can have a meaningful impact on the long-term success of companies and countries.
J.P. Morgan Chase and Co.
American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company, offering services within consumer and commercial banking, investment banking, wealth management and asset management. It is ranked by S&P Global as the largest bank in the United States and the sixth-largest bank in the world with US$2.6 trillion (2019) total assets.
Willis Towers Watson
Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW) is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth. The company is an Irish-domiciled global multinational risk management, insurance brokerage and advisory company.
In focus: Addressing investor needs in business reporting on the SDGs
This report aims to integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the business reporting process. This is done by providing perspectives and recommendations on key parameters to effectively inform investor decision-making processes. This report builds on current available disclosures and does not intend to create a new reporting framework.
The value of responsible investment
The research explores the moral, financial and economic justification for responsible investment, and the academic evidence underpinning future action. It concentrates on how ESG factors materially impact investment risk and returns, clarifying the agency of investors over non-financial value creation.
Sustainalytics
Sustainalytics is a global leader in environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) research and ratings. Today, Sustainalytics supports hundreds of the world’s foremost investors who incorporate ESG insights into their investment processes.
