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The Importance Of The Financial Services Sector To The Sustainable Development Goals
The Importance Of The Financial Services Sector
To The Sustainable Development Goals
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Previously I have written about the importance of the healthcare, resource transformation, food and beverage, consumption, extractives & minerals processing, renewables...
Three easy ways to make sure your company isn’t destroying the world
Three easy ways to make sure your company
isn't destroying the world
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
The United Nations has made a sobering prediction: by 2100, the world will be 3.2 degrees hotter. Let’s be clear – life after such a temperature rise will be nothing short of a...
Investors Should Support Extinction Rebellion And Here’s How They Can Do So
Investors Should Support Extinction Rebellion And
Here’s How They Can Do So
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
The U.K.-originating climate activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has caused a substantial amount of disruption. Its tactics include blocking traffic, grounding flights, and...
The Importance Of The Services Sector To The Sustainable Development Goals
The Importance Of The Services Sector To The
Sustainable Development Goals
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Previously I have written about the importance of the healthcare, resource transformation, food and beverage, consumption, extractives & minerals processing, renewables...
The Importance Of The Technology And Communications Sector To The Sustainable Development Goals
The Importance Of The Technology And Communications Sector
To The Sustainable Development Goals
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Previously I have written about the importance of the healthcare, resource transformation, food and beverage, consumption, extractives & minerals processing, renewables...
How To Further Accelerate Sustainable Investing In Japan: Taking It To Mainstream Asset Managers
How To Further Accelerate Sustainable Investing In Japan:
Taking It To Mainstream Asset Managers
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Sustainable investment is growing rapidly in Japan. Sustainably invested assets under management (AUM) grew a staggering 300% between 2016 and 2018, from almost ¥57 trillion to...
The Statement Of Purpose And What You Need To Do
The Statement Of Purpose And
What You Need To Do
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
I am asking all of you who read this post to do whatever you can to encourage companies you are involved with in any way to get their board to publish a “Statement of Purpose.”...
The Importance Of The Transportation Sector To The Sustainable Development Goals
The Importance Of The Transportation Sector To
The Sustainable Development Goals
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Previously I have written about the importance of the healthcare, resource transformation, food and beverage, consumption, extractives & minerals processing, renewables...
Can The R-Factor Help Lead To A Market-Based Solution For ESG Reporting Standards?
Can The R-Factor Help Lead To A Market-Based
Solution For ESG Reporting Standards?
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
In June 2017 the European Union passed the EU Accounting Directive for Non-financial Information. It was implemented Member States in 2018. This law “requires large companies to...
What The World Can Learn From The Japanese Experience In Integrated Reporting
What The World Can Learn From The Japanese
Experience In Integrated Reporting
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
According to a recent report by the KPMG Integrated Reporting Center of Excellence, in 2018 there were 414 self-declared integrated reports by Japanese companies. This is up from...
A Sophisticated Investor’s Approach To Climate Change: The Case Of LGIM
A Sophisticated Investor's Approach To Climate
Change: The Case Of LGIM
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Most major asset owners and asset managers now recognize the deleterious effects climate change can have on their overall portfolios. Climate change represents a system-level...
LPs failing engagement in private equity
LPs Failing Engagement
in Private Equity
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Engagement and stewardship are topics of increasing important to asset owners, either directly for the assets they manage or indirectly through their external asset managers....
Three Dilemmas for Creating a Long-Term Board
Three Dilemmas for Creating
a Long-Term Board
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Engagement and stewardship are topics of increasing important to asset owners, either directly for the assets they manage or indirectly through their external asset managers....
The Quality of Integrated Reporting Around the World
The Quality of Integrated Reporting
Around the World
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Integrated reporting is a business process that culminates in the publication of a report that explains how an organization creates value over the short-, medium-, and long-term....
Concentration In The Asset Management Industry: Implications For Corporate Engagement
Concentration In The Asset Management Industry:
Implications For Corporate Engagement
Articles 2019, News & Analysis
Yesterday I published an article in the Harvard Business Review, “The Investor Revolution: Shareholders Are Getting Serious About Sustainability," which I wrote with Svetlana...
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