ESGN News and Press, Columbia Sustainable International Equity Income From 12/13/21

We see 2022 heralding a new market regime by delivering global stock gains and bond losses for a second year in a row - a first in about half a century. Stocks rallied back to near record levels and yields rose last week as worries of Omicron dissipated. China’s central bank lo...

Chinese equities, particularly offshore equities, suffered relentlessly in the headlines for their negative performance. And both India and China have been increasingly reliant on imported energy, which includes coal, oil, and others. The more volatile the weather and global deman...

Chinese authorities recently presented a draft plan to reduce heavy metal emissions by 5% by 2025. China will accelerate the transfer of professional electroplating companies to special industrial parks, the Global Times reported. Environment pollution has been troubling China for...

It's often thought that you need active engagement with companies from a shareholder perspective to drive change. COP26 is hugely important because it brings together so many different interests at the government level, at a corporate level and NGO level, standard-setting levels. ...

We're looking now at a much more uncertain, more volatile and a more uneven environment for both growth and inflation. What's driving this is the fact that there is a digital transformation, a green transformation and a social transformation going on. Despite all the uncertainty, ...

Our key lessons of 2021: Stay anchored to your framework in the unique restart; appreciate the net-zero journey has started; and have courage of conviction. Markets switched to risk-off mode last week as the Omicron virus strain spread globally and the Fed warned of inflation risks an...

We may not know what the newest COVID variant holds, but it may not actually matter. The economy is already questionable and has been more and more for quite some time already. In other words, the issue at hand isn’t necessarily omicron nor really a “growth scare”...

The S&P 500 was down 2.2% last week, which, in normal times, would be barely worth a mention. But in today’s speculative market, that qualifies as a correction. The first two quarters of this year were a big rebound, but last quarter was a bummer with the emergence of the D...

At the UN’s recent COP26 climate summit, world leaders made ambitious pledges to combat global warming but also appeared more concerned than ever of the hard work ahead. While countries commit to goals, many quality companies are already reducing carbon-emissions. In our vi...

Several organizations measure or estimate greenhouse gas emissions at a sovereign level, which means data should be collected, standardized, reported, and widely distributed. Collective investor action, which can manifest itself in different ways, is gaining prominence because of what...