All Academic research articles – Page 2
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Opening the Black Box of Board Appointments – women’s and men’s routes to the boardroom
Professor Elisabeth Kelan talks about new report Opening the Black Box of Board Appointments: Women’s and Men’s Routes to the Boardroom and what it reveals about the current state of gender diversity in the boardroom.
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As proxy access in the US spikes at 52%, have we reached a tipping point?
The explosion in proxy access resolution submissions has directly influenced the level and quality of corporate engagement, as well as the dialogue surrounding director elections.
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Climate disclosure – what does this year’s ExxonMobil resolution tell us?
Examining climate disclosure through an in-depth look at the upcoming ExxonMobil climate disclosure resolution.
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Long walk to below 2 degrees – reflections on COP22
Canny investors recognise the need to understand climate risk and protect investments.
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How ESG investing affects financial performance
Integrating ESG factors is beneficial for investment decision making. Increasing numbers of asset owners and investors can agree on this, but there is a growing realisation that deeper analysis is required.
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Economic inequality: Putting the S into ESG
Economic inequality is the financial equivalent of high blood pressure: it affects the whole body and suggests problems elsewhere.
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Fintech: Reshaping the investment industry
Within the space of six years, finance technology – fintech – has gone from a technology that skirted the edges of the investment sphere to receiving billing at this year’s G20 summit where the world’s industrial leaders described its impact as something akin to a new industrial revolution.
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Values to valuation
There has been growing interest from signatories in addressing human rights, inequality and labour standards.
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Within 2 degrees: Where will the stranded assets be?
A study by Christophe McGlade and Paul Ekins demonstrates that in order to limit global warming to 2oC above pre-industrial levels, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 8o% of coal reserves should remain unused until at least 2050.
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Blog postAre investment consultants' reputations the next stranded assets
A paper from Ben Caldecott and Dane Rook lays out why investment consultants are not having a bigger influence on the uptake of green investment practices by asset owners.
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How policy makers can make sustainable energy projects bankable
Christopher Kaminker of the OECD has identified barriers to institutional investors filling the financing gap in sustainable energy investing, outlining recommendations to policy makers on how these barriers can be mitigated.
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Blog postClimate risk: the unhedgeable half
A Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) report shows that up to half of the losses from shifting market sentiment to climate change can be offset through asset allocation, but that the remaining half is unhedgeable at the investor level, leaving investors exposed unless system-wide action is taken.
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Blog postDecarbonised indexes can help hedge climate risk
Mats Andersson, Patrick Bolton and Frédéric Samama demonstrate that a decarbonised index offers long-term, passive investors a way to hedge climate change risk without sacrificing financial returns.
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Do beneficiaries' beliefs affect funds' decisions?
Lisa Schopohl’s paper Red versus Blue: Do Political Dimensions influence the Investment Preferences of State Pension Funds? finds that US state pension funds with Democraticleaning members favour companies that perform well on ESG issues to a greater extent than funds with Republican-leaning counterparts do.
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Is all investing impact investing?
Nathan Fabian, Director of Policy and Research, PRI kicked-off a discussion on the question: Is all investing impact investing, or is impact investing a special category that needs different reporting tools?
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Can ESG factors really be captured like financial data?
Roberts and Young-Ferris’s paper details the frustrations that a large global fund manager (InvestCo) encountered trying to quantify and systematise ESG analysis within an investment process reliant upon a traditional financial accounting framework.
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Does ESG pay off financially?
PRI Chair Martin Skancke led a spirited discussion on one of the most commonly asked questions in ESG investing: What effect does responsible investing have on returns?
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Is the "sin stock premium" an illusion?
Roberts and Young-Ferris’s paper details the frustrations that a large global fund manager (InvestCo) encountered trying to quantify and systematise ESG analysis within an investment process reliant upon a traditional financial accounting framework.
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Blog postCO2 disclosure cuts the cost of debt
Energy, the lifeblood of any business, is a considerable cost, but being more transparent about emissions data could be a way for businesses to reduce some of that cost and create value for shareholders.
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The groundswell of support to bring integrated reporting into the mainstream
Since the global financial crisis in 2008, there has been a growing emphasis on the role of the investor as a steward or custodian of beneficiaries’ capital, which in turn has meant investors placing greater emphasis on companies sharing more about their long-term strategies.
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