IQSI News and Press, IQ Candriam ESG International Equity From 10/26/21

Managers need to be thinking holistically about ESG in today’s environment. Compelling investment opportunities can be uncovered by identifying companies which are seeking to improve their ESG profiles, creating a virtuous cycle to draw capital from a wider investor base. E...

The breadth and depth of climate change issues test conventional appraisal of risk and return. Inflection points often represent existential risks as well as great opportunities. Both climate risk and the ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic represent a systematic risk to humanity and ...

Will there be a number of countries there who perhaps feel tempted to keep this unorthodox policy going further, or may even step further away from what we consider normal policy? I think adoption of electric cars, the rate of adoption, will really be driven by the rate of improvement...

Companies are preparing for climate change in multiple ways. Key EMs have announced climate-aware ambitions to limit and reduce emissions, as well as more direct plans to tackle major environmental concerns. Climate change is an issue that will span multiple decades and its import...

We move to a cautious outlook on global equities. During September, we are continuing to see risk factors build while equity valuations remain at extraordinarily high levels. While global earnings estimates for 2021 have provided a strong tailwind for markets in 2021, this impetus is ...

As ESG scores and ratings get more traction, researchers are also looking at the factors that allow companies to get high scores and good rankings, and improve them over time. For any variable, no matter how intuitive and obvious its connection to value might be, to generate "excess" ...

On the second anniversary of the Business Roundtable's statement endorsing a "stakeholder" standard for corporate conduct, corporations have been criticized for doing nothing to implement it. But in fact, the opposite has happened: corporations have embraced some stakeholder interests...

The industry is now seeing an expansion in data-driven practices, with new ESG and climate datasets emerging and becoming mainstream. We explore what climate risk metrics are and how they are used today. As a relatively new area of risk analysis, climate data is still developing; cons...

For Q2 2021, the average equity fund and taxable fixed income fund posted a 6.36% and 1.55% return, respectively. Nonetheless, in a quasi-flight to safety and continued search for yield, bond investors pushed the 10-year Treasury yield down 29 basis points (bps) for Q2 to 1.45%. L...

Ivan Martynov/iStock via Getty Images A recent research report indicates that assessing investments and acquisitions by environmental, social, and governance criteria isn't just a question of social consciousness but pays off financially as well. 65% of dealmakers in a survey conducted by adv...