COP26 saw biodiversity emerge as the next ‘ESG frontier’. But is it the wild west or a complex world with nuanced requirements to understand and work with?

In 2020, LGIM cast over 138,600 votes at over 14,000 meetings. Here’s what they voted for and against.

This report from CDP and Planet Tracker details how water risks are already leading to stranded assets across key industrial sectors and shows how financial institutions are exposed to these risks. It looks at four case studies across the coal, electric utilities, metals & mining, and oil & gas sectors.

What are the levers through which PE can create value through sustainability?

The bottom line is that there does not appear to be a short-term crisis brewing because of the size of the debt, political gamesmanship or rising interest rates. However……

“To call them ‘credit indicators’ attempts to legitimize a dubious and unproven exercise in developing a political ratings system that is based on indeterminate factors,” Rep Chris Stewart

Moody’s say Sustainable bond volumes moderated in the first quarter of 2022 as global market headwinds intensified.

Hetty Green used Value principles to tame the wild markets of the Gilded Age and establish herself as the richest woman in America.

By moving away from a traditional 60% equity-40% bond portfolio many proponents delivered better absolute and risk-adjusted returns over traditional approaches.

Investing in a random fund gives NPV equal to E[GPMEi]. It is useful to decompose this quantity in a typical asset pricing way. Or throw darts at a board?

Over the last decade the number of proposals submitted globally at annual shareholder meetings increased by over 80%.

What’s hot and what’s not. A lot more red that blue in this particular crystal ball.

Higher paid CIOs outperform their counterparts by 47 to 60 bps per year says this new report but how does it feel to the people they work with and the market as a whole?

MLM shares its views on the implications for investment implications from the Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

It was the second month in a row that the $279.7 billion pension fund committed more than $1 billion in investments within its credit portfolio.

A higher dollar has also had negative impacts both on the real economy and on earnings.

The data shows an increase in the use of ETFs to invest in SRI/ESG (67% of respondents in 2021, versus 55% in 2020).

Here are the average percentage increases for total compensation over the past 1-2 years:

Invoking the spirit of Roberta Flack’s Killing Me Softly, JPM Global Strategist & former RAO Speaker David Kelly, says the Fed says will not be unhappy to see some slowdown in an overheating economy.

As Princess Diana once said; there are three of us in this relationship. And that didn’t work out well did it?