Update -- on First Quarter 2018 ESG / Sustainable Investment Developments Continuing our commentary on the theme suggested by MSCI's Linda Eiling Lee of Volume and Velocity in 2018 (of change) – current developments have been signalling dramatic and rapid changes in sustainable investing and corporate sustainability in the First Quarter… Read More
New Corporate “E” and “S” QualityScores For 1,500 Companies Are In Addition to the Core “G” Score for Corporate Governance For Investors / Fiduciaries... More “big news” for both corporate sustainability officers and sustainable investment professionals at the start of 2018: Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which began operations in the… Read More
“PROOF OF CONCEPT” FOR SUSTAINABLE INVESTING? Barron’s Weighs In With Inaugural List of Top 100 Sustainable Companies
February 7, 2018
We're thinking - Dramatic “Proof of Concept” for Sustainable Investing? The Influential Barron’s Publication Continues Its Focus on Sustainable Investing, Names the Inaugural Roster of "The Top 100 Sustainable Companies -- Big Corporations With The Best ESG Policies Have Been Beating the Stock Market." Barron’s, owned by the Dow Jones… Read More
Volume and Velocity: These may well be the key characteristics of developments in corporate sustainability and in sustainable investing in the year 2018 -- MSCI and BlackRock Setting the Pace... Bigger, faster, more...this is how Linda-Eling Lee, Global Head of Research for MSCI’s ESG Research Group and her colleague Matt… Read More
THE UNIVERSE OF ESG RANKERS SERVING INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR CLIENTS EXPANDS to Include a Significant Player: Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)
January 16, 2018
ISS’ Traditional Corporate Governance Focus Expanding to Encompass Environmental & Social QualityScores for Roughly 1,500 Public Companies Coming in January…And Expanding to 5,000 Issuers in Q2 A significant new player is now entering the universe of the growing number of third-party organizations providing institutional investors with ESG rankings and data… Read More
INVESTORS AND THE SDGS — AND YOUR COMPANY. How Are Investors Using the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Evaluate the Performance of Public Companies?
January 12, 2018
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by 193 nation-members of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015. There are 17 goals and 169 “subsets” or targets. To achieve the goals over time (out to the 2030 target date), collaboration among investors, companies, governments, the UN system, other multilateral… Read More
The Authoritative Barron’s Magazine Now Sets the Pace: Sustainable Investing Is a Powerful Force in Today’s Capital Markets, So Say The Editors
October 10, 2017
Important update: February 4, 2018 -- see end of this brief for details. About Barron's It's the "bible" for Wall Street professionals, who take in the print and digital content (usually over the weekend) to find out more about the markets -- and then plunge into the serious work on… Read More
Update: ISS Sold Again — Institutional Shareholder Services Will Have New Owner in 4Q 2017
October 2, 2017
In August 2017, we provided subscribers with information on key raters, rankers, scorekeepers in the ESG categories. One prominent firm of long-standing is Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS).. The firm advises institutional investors -- including many "universal owners" such as public employee pension funds and organized labor funds that represent the… Read More
TRACKING ESG RATINGS PLAYERS INFLUENCING THE CAPITAL MARKETS…Are These Organizations Watching Your Company?
August 31, 2017
Helping you keep track of the ESG / Sustainability third party analytics service providers assigning Scores, Ratings, Rankings, and Best-in-Class recognitions to Publicly-traded Corporations. This is a feature that will be regularly updated as developments warrant. There is a lot of change going on in this space. BACKGROUND There is… Read More
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