EQLT News and Press, Workplace Equality Portfolio From 09/21/20

Why interest in sustainable investment is on the rise. What impact a sustainability focus has on performance. How investors can implement a sustainable investment portfolio. How FTSE Russell measures a company's ESG performance. For further details see: An Introducti...

By Helena Fung, head of sustainable investment, APAC The appetite among domestic investors in Japan for ESG (environmental, social and governance) instruments has undoubtedly been gaining momentum. The Japan Sustainable Investment Forum ((JSIF)) reports that total sustainable investment ...

By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist The ripple effects of COVID-19 are impacting a wide variety of markets, and investors have lots of questions. Among them: Will production facilities leave China for other markets? What fixed income opportunities have been created by ce...

This short article by Fong Yee Chan, Senior Product Manager, Sustainable Investing at FTSE Russell considers the two important lessons that the Covid-19 pandemic is teaching us that have applicability to climate change. Firstly, it is important to act upon high probability and high impact risk...

By Julie Moret, Head of ESG, Franklin Templeton Investments Dislocations resulting from the pandemic shine a light on environmental, social and governance ((ESG)) issues, which can be used as an additional tool to identify leading companies from the laggards, according to Franklin Templet...

Get the ins and outs of green bonds in this two-part series. Let's start with the basics. A green bond is a type of fixed-income instrument that specifically and solely dedicates its proceeds to financing new or existing projects that advance environmental objectives . Issuers set the qua...

By Kurt Reiman, Daniel Donato The economic outage to contain the spread of COVID-19 has forced companies and whole industries to rapidly adapt to sharp falls in demand and a more uncertain future. The emergency response to the pandemic has led many of us to reassess how we lead our daily l...

By Paul Golden At a Glance New ESG futures around the S&P 500 help Swedbank Robur meet its ESG commitment to clients. Investors are demanding greater transparency around funds as the industry seeks sustainability standards. Sustainability-focused funds have continued on an up...

By J. Patrick Bradley Introduction Across the global economy, Environmental, Social, and Governance ((ESG)) factors are becoming more important and better integrated into the activities of governments, investment managers, plan sponsors, consultants, and industry. I've written on this t...

By Detlef Glow With the announcement that BlackRock will make sustainability its new standard for investing, the debate about ESG integration has reached a new level. Even as there has been a lot of talk about the integration of ESG criteria before, the self-declaration of the largest asse...