ESG News & Commentary

Thursday 02. of April 2009 Leading Sustainable Finance Organizations Call on G-20 to Adopt ESG Considerations

Six umbrella organizations for the global sustainable and responsible finance industry have called on world leaders attending the Group of Twenty (G-20) summit in London to seize the current economic crisis as an opportunity for transitioning to a low-carbon, resource efficient, and socially sustain...

Wednesday 01. of April 2009 Colonial tops Mercer ESG ranking

Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has topped the list in Mercer's first rating of environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices for fund managers in emerging markets.

Wednesday 25. of March 2009 Ethical companies winners in past five years

Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors are forcing a revaluation of how we look at investment and risk opportunities, an industry executive has said. In a panel discussion on corporate governance at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) on the Gold Coast, Erik Mat...

Thursday 19. of March 2009 Dutch government signals greater ESG pressure for investors

Amsterdam: ESG pressure for Dutch companies - Investors in Dutch companies should be able to apply pressure on a much broader set of legally binding environmental, social and particularly governance issues and expect a proposed ‘response time’ of 180 days for companies to act on shareholder engageme...

Wednesday 18. of March 2009 Mainstreaming the inclusion of ESG issues in Asia Pacific markets

The United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Progress Report published in 2008 stated that “despite serious upheaval in global credit and financial markets during the past year, interest in Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues as they pertain to investment management sh...

Wednesday 11. of March 2009 The Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting ESG)

Global leaders from business, labor and civil society today declared their belief that the lack of transparency in the existing system for corporate reporting has failed its stakeholders. In issuing The Amsterdam Declaration on Transparency and Reporting, Board Members of the Global Reporting Initia...

Wednesday 04. of March 2009 Future proof investment markets

While the analysis of the relationship between the integration of environmental and social governance (ESG) issues and investment returns has not yet led to unambiguous results (mainly due to the lack of time series ESG data, see the summary report of an analysis conducted by State Street Global Adv...

Wednesday 04. of March 2009 Companies in emerging markets catching up on environmental, social and governance issues

Some emerging market companies now match the performance of their peers

in developed countries on environmental issues, but many more lag behind on

human rights

Thursday 29. of January 2009 Davos launch of UN-backed ESG reporting guidelines for financial services companies

A set of best-practice sustainability reporting criteria for financial services companies has been launched at a high-level dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos by the United Nations and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which promotes global corporate ESG disclosure standards. The crite...

Thursday 11. of December 2008 KLD CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING (SRI) RESEARCH LEADERSHIP

Boston, MA, December 11, 2008 – KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. of Boston, MA, is proud to mark its 20th year of leadership in socially responsible investing (SRI). Since 1988, KLD has helped transform SRI from a niche offering into a comprehensive risk-management investment model – the fastest growi...