All Listed equity articles – Page 7
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Blog postCandidates with both ESG knowledge and investment experience key to furthering ESG integration
By Justin Sloggett, Head of ESG Investment Research, the PRI and Matt Orsagh, Director of Capital Markets Policy, CFA Institute
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Blog postUber IPO: what are the ESG risks and opportunities?
By Toby Belsom, Director of Investment Practices, the PRI
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Technical guideESG integration in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa: Markets, practices and data
Portfolio managers and analysts are increasingly incorporating ESG factors in their investment analyses and processes. However, ESG integration remains in its relative infancy, with investors and analysts calling for more guidance on exactly “how” they can “do ESG” and integrate ESG data into their analysis
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ArticleThe ESG integration framework
After extensive analysis of the ESG integration techniques of direct investors across the globe, CFA Institute and PRI collated the many ESG integration techniques used by practitioners and developed the ESG Integration Framework (see below). This article is taken from the Guidance and case studies for ESG integration: equities and ...
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Technical guideGuidance and case studies for ESG integration: equities and fixed income
Set out by the CFA Institute and the PRI, this best practice report helps investors understand how they can better integrate ESG factors into their equity, corporate bond, and sovereign debt portfolios.
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Technical guideESG integration in the Americas: markets, practices and data
This report focuses on the current state of ESG integration in the Americas, with reports for EMEA and APAC are scheduled to be released in March 2019.
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Technical guide
Low-carbon investing and low-carbon indices
For off-the-shelf fund solutions, investing against lowcarbon indices is a potentially lower-cost option than actively managed strategies.
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Technical guide
Low-carbon investing and listed equity funds
While the public markets comprise a smaller portion of the clean energy investment universe compared to asset finance and unlisted assets (including infrastructure, private equity and venture capital), activity in the acquisitions market has steadily grown over recent decades, reflecting the larger size of the renewable energy sector (see below).
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Technical guide
Phasing out investments in thermal coal
While many investors may consider phasing out thermal coal alongside reductions to other fossil fuel assets (such as oil sands, crude oil, natural gas and metallurgical coal), this section focuses on thermal coal assets as a starting point due to their high CO2 content (and potential for carbon reduction), the ...
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Technical guide
Integrating climate-related risks and opportunities into investment processes
The PRI defines integration as “the explicit and systematic inclusion of [climate change] issues in investment analysis and investment decisions.”
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Technical guide
Low-carbon, climate-aligned investment opportunities
The shift towards renewable energy is building, recording its highest growth rate of any energy source recorded in 2017.
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Technical guide
Low-carbon investing and green and climate-aligned bonds
Climate (or climate-aligned) bonds refer to labelled and unlabelled bonds for which proceeds are intended to finance projects and activities that contribute to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. Green bonds refers to explicitly labelled bonds for which the proceeds will be exclusively used to finance, or re-finance (in part or ...
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Technical guide
Low-carbon investing and unlisted strategies and assets
Investments in clean energy across unlisted asset classes (such as property, private equity, infrastructure, agriculture and timberland) and projects (such as renewable energy and energy efficiency projects) is clearly growing (see below).
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Technical guideHow to invest in the low-carbon economy
Institutional investors’ responsibility to manage and protect their beneficiaries’ assets must include considering the impacts of climate change.
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ArticleWhat is ESG integration?
The term “ESG integration” is often used when talking about ESG investing.
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Technical guide
Transparency: A key component of active ownership
Transparency is a key component of active ownership and it forms part of many stewardship codes and principles (i.e. Principle 6, the ICGN Global Stewardship Principles, the OECD Responsible Business Conduct for Institutional Investor and several national stewardship codes).
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Technical guide
Assessing external managers and service providers in listed equity investing
When investors decide to partially or fully outsource their active ownership activities to investment managers or specialised service providers, defining criteria to select, appoint and monitor third parties is crucial.
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Technical guide
Engagement and voting practices in listed equity
The first step to identify targets for engagement is setting up regular monitoring of investee companies on ESG issues which represent value at risk or potential opportunities for long-term financial performance and impact on the real economy.
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Technical guideDeveloping an active ownership policy
The first phase of active ownership involves reviewing the investor’s overall investment strategy, including the vision, mission and investment principles of the organisation.
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Technical guide
Introduction to active ownership in listed equity
Active ownership is one of the fastest-growing responsible investment strategies in listed equity globally.
