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Has the sustainability agenda been derailed?
ESG is the best preventative defence against societies becoming stressed
A new Cold War?
China and the West will want to prevent the world splitting into two competing blocs. Read this latest article from the award-winning content team behind AIQ to understand:
Growth? Inflation? Recession? Principles!
Volatility is the price you pay for the better long-term returns on equities. Discuss.
Move over Big Boys…..
CENTURY OF BIOTECH: CAPITALIZING ON THE BIOMEDICAL REVOLUTION - a view from Janus Henderson
Renewable Energy Market Update
The outlook for energy in 2022/2023 from the INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY. Read it an weep or invest in renewables?
Good Counsel: Value in Culture
What is the balance between financial goals and goals related to the wellbeing of others? asks David Rouch, Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus & Author of, The Social Licence For Financial Markets: Reaching For The End And Why It Counts
Time to get serious about climate change
Many companies overlook the pressing, often surprising, array of climate risks they face.
Rewiring the financial system to double down on the energy transition
We are in new territory here – an overnight major shift in how countries think about their energy resilience against the backdrop of a multi-decadal, yet equally urgent energy transition.
BRAVING THE STORMS - World Bank talks about ASIA
Projections for regional growth in 2022 have therefore been reduced from 5.4 percent in the previous Update to 5 percent.
Venture capital must embed ESG to back the companies of the future
PRI and SASB have come out with great tools for asset managers and buyout firms, but they don't quite cover where VC is: fast-changing companies, often in markets that are created from scratch say the WEF.
RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT IN VENTURE CAPITAL
PRI believes that an economically efficient, sustainable global financial system is a necessity for long-term value creation. Such a system will reward long-term, responsible investment and benefit the environment and society as a whole.
Capturing risk differentials from climate-related risks
Lessons learned from the existing analyses and practices of financial institutions, credit rating agencies and supervisors
Biodiversity: The next hurdle in the ESG data marathon
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?
LGIM’s voting intentions for 2022
In 2020, LGIM cast over 138,600 votes at over 14,000 meetings. Here’s what they voted for and against.
High and Dry: How Water Issues Are Stranding Assets
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.
Creating Value through Sustainability in Private Markets
What are the levers through which PE can create value through sustainability?
The Investment Implications of a Falling Budget Deficit
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……
Republican Congress could use riders to block SEC actions
“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
Sustainable bond issuance to be flat in 2022
Moody’s say Sustainable bond volumes moderated in the first quarter of 2022 as global market headwinds intensified.
THE STORY OF HETTY GREEN: The Queen of Wall Street (1905)
Hetty Green used Value principles to tame the wild markets of the Gilded Age and establish herself as the richest woman in America.