All Sustainable financial system articles – Page 3
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Thought leadership
SEC considering changes to shareholder voting process in the US
The publicly-stated purpose of the November roundtable is to hear from stakeholders on “whether the SEC’s proxy rules should be refined.”
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Focusing on long-term investors in stock exchange innovation
While traditional stock exchange business models can pull revenue from diverse sources depending on the exchange, companies listing on the exchange are often considered the primary client. One disruption playing out in the United States concerns exchanges taking a deeper focus on the needs of institutional investors.
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Innovating stock exchanges to mobilize capital for impact
Traditional stock exchanges are evolving their business practices to find more innovative ways to increase capital flows to sustainable companies and projects through both listed equity and bonds.
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Stock exchange innovation: applications for blockchain
For the past few years, financial institutions have been investing in blockchain technology with the idea that it could reduce the cost and complexity of many of its processes, ranging from payments and settlements to tracking shareholder assets.
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Thought leadershipEvolving business models and new applications of technology by stock exchanges
Evolving business models is not a new topic to stock exchanges. Historically, most exchanges were self-regulated, mutual bodies serving their broker members, and revenues were driven primarily by annual membership dues. Exchanges charged traders a fee to buy and sell stocks on a physical trading floor.
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WebinarPrésentation du Plan d'Action de la Commission Européenne sur la finance durable
Présentation du Plan d’Action sur la finance durable de la Commission Européenne, et des propositions législatives associées.
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Technical guideMise en oeuvre des recommendations du groupe de travail sur la publication d'informations financières relatives au climat (TCFD)
Les marchés financiers ont besoin de données de qualité sur les risques liés au climat afin d’opérer efficacement vers la transition énergétique.
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Discussion paperResponsible investment and blockchain
This paper introduces blockchain and its relevance to responsible investors. Part one is a technical primer on blockchain, while part two explores some of the ways in which blockchain could transform the financial system and the implications this may have for investors.
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A primer on blockchain
Part one of Responsible investment and blockchain provides a technical primer on blockchain.
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The implications of blockchain for responsible investment
Central share depositories Modern shares are often not directly held by shareholders, but in bulk by specialist depositories (such as the DTC in the US), which then assign shares to their individual owners by keeping a central ownership register. This has drawn attention from blockchain reformers who claim that the ...
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Discussion paper
How policy and regulation affect investment consultants' approach to ESG considerations
Globally, we’ve seen growth in ESG-related regulation for asset owners and investment managers, but not investment consultants.
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WebinarPRI update on ESG for CIEBA members
On February 21, 2018, the PRI ran a webinar for Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets (CIEBA) members called, “Principles for Responsible Investment Update”.
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Thought leadership
Investor recommendations for managing market short-termism
Below is an overview of recommendations, which are not comprehensive solutions, but aim to mitigate some of the most serious consequences of short-termism through changes in strategy and practice.
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WebinarIntroduction to SOURCE: the Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation project preparation system
Improving infrastructure project preparation and access to critical data to foster long-term investment.
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Thought leadershipResponding to megatrends: Investment institutions trend index 2017
What is a megatrend? Most institutions share a common belief that megatrend dynamics will result in multidimensional transformations across society, technology, economics, environment and politics (STEEP). We would also strongly encourage this thinking about megatrends to be framed within the context of an integrated system of real-world powerful forces altering ...
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News and press
PRI publishes investment consultant services review
Investment consultants advise on the investment practices of trillions of dollars worldwide.
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Discussion paper
Investment consulting and a sustainable financial system
ESG considerations seen as niche service offerings, often entailing extra costs, and only to be provided when explicitly requested by asset owner clients.
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Discussion paperInvestment consultants services review
Most consultants and their asset owner clients are failing to consider ESG issues in investment practice – despite growing evidence of the financial materiality of ESG issues to portfolio value.
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Potential improvements to how investment consultants approach ESG considerations
Our central conclusion is that investment consultants are unlikely to take action on ESG issues without stronger incentives to do so from their asset owner clients.
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How market structure affects investment consultants approach to ESG considerations
Relationships between asset owners and investment consultants have a major influence on whether and how investment consultants take account of ESG issues in the advice that they provide.
