climate change
Is there a performance penalty for ESG investing? Is it logical to lump E, S, and G together?
Is 2020 the watershed year when the world begins to understand the concept of systemic risk in our interactions with the natural environment?
"This is the beauty of humanity: We adapt, we evolve, we move forward,” Larry Fink says.
Janet Yellen sat for a wide-ranging fireside chat with Margaret “Marg” Franklin, CFA.
What are the main areas of concern in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) world?
Climate change is for real and in India the challenge is particularly grave, Navneet Munot, CFA, writes.
The water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa, demonstrates that carbon emissions and climate change are not the only sustainability threats, says Monika Freyman, CFA. Water concerns already affect investors' bottom lines as well as future risks to their top lines.
The environment's margin of safety is narrowing with each uptick in global temperatures. This will translate into greater effects on investor portfolios. It is the job of the investment manager to cushion against those risks while still seeking profitable opportunities.
Jason Voss, CFA shares his Weekend Reads for Investors, including material on the prevalence of false memories, recent bank scandals, and new technologies that promise to transform the energy sector.
The authors analyze environmental commodity markets and how they can attract investments, focusing on the application of market-based instruments to incentivize the behavior and change needed to deliver environmental quality and mitigate environmental risk. This book can be read linearly, chapter by chapter, or it can be used by fund managers, regulatory investors, and green-finance experts as a reference to gain valuable insights into how to manage carbon markets.