Sustainable Investing
The Index Industry Association (IIA) surveyed 300 asset managers about how they perceive ESG.
What is the state of ESG analysis and how can investors both have an impact and invest with impact?
How are women growing in importance in the investment ecosystem? How are firms approaching the sustainability journey?
Does investor overreaction to ESG controversies create the opportunity for abnormal returns?
ESG's growing prominence requires that investors expand their toolkits.
Capitalism will have to adapt to meet the green challenge.
Women are narrowing the investment gap and will soon close it, according to Barbara Stewart, CFA, and Duncan Stewart, CFA.
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are important, but are all of them material? California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) CIO Christopher J. Ailman discusses how he resolves investment conflicts.
“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” The same goes for integrating ESG factors into investing, says Bryan Esterly, CFA.
"Standards for disclosure around material ESG factors by sector are critical. Once we have this, we can start to innovate at a faster rate," says Erika Karp, founder of Cornerstone Capital.