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A Big Year, 2018 – Tipping Points For Developments in Corporate Sustainability & Sustainable Investing… Volume & Velocity Linda-Eling Lee, Global Head of Research for MSCI’s ESG Research Group and her colleague Matt Moscardi (Head of Research Financial Sector, ESG) this week described what they are projecting in the traditional early-in-the-year setting out of key ESG trends to watch by the influential MSCI ESG team: Bigger, faster, more – that’s how Linda describes the “onslaught of challenges happening soon and more dramatically that many could have imagined” in the corporate sector” (including policy, technology, and climate change as key factors). Investors (in turn) are looking for ways to better position their portfolios to navigate the uncertainty of the 2018 operating environment in the corporate sector. As the “heads up” for investors and companies-- the five key 2018 trends projected by MSCI’s ESG researchers/analysts:
And this is very important for the corporate sector:
MSCI sees 2018 as the Year of the Human – it’s about human talent, talent, talent! That is, what companies do to help in the transitioning to new working environments (with the changes brought about by automation, AI, robotics) that will be factored into the analysis of public companies by the MSCI ESG team, and measured over time (for outcomes). Already, at the Davos meeting this week, major global firms in IT are creating an initiative to “tech-reskill” one million people to meet the global skills gap challenge inherent in the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (firms are Cisco, Accenture, CA Technologies, HP, Infosys, Salesforce, SAP, Tata Consultancy, others). What we think company managements / boards should expect in the “volume and velocity” context: many more investors (the volume / especially large fiduciaries) are embracing comprehensive ESG factors in their analysis and portfolio management approaches with a faster uptake of this trend among the mainstream elements of the capital markets players (the velocity).
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