Making a Better Business Case for ESG
Author is an NYU Professor- "Without clearer insight into the financial benefits of corporate sustainability efforts, they may never be scaled up in the face of climate change, COVID-19, inequality, and many other perceived or real challenges to a company's bottom line."
Is Sustainable Investing Moving into the Mainstream?
Insights from the HBR-UBS “ESG: Do You or Don't You?”
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Exploring the rise of sustainability reporting amongst public companies in the US.
The Investor Revolution
Survey results from a survey of senior execs at US financial firms. ESG and Sustainability are almost unanimously top of their agenda. The article digs deeper into the causes as well. Good overview of the ESG+Impact Landscape.
Why it’s time to finally worry about ESG
Robert Eccles, a visiting professor of management practice at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, says that the global investment community’s interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues has finally reached a tipping point.
Sustainable Funds Continue to Rake in Assets During the Second Quarter
US ESG fund flows have already nearly matched last year's record despite the pandemic.
The dubious appeal of ESG is for dupes only
Environmental, social and governance investing is ascendant. Its mirror image, stakeholder capitalism, is now the standard mantra on boards and in executive suites. It is here to stay.
Where ESG Fails
ESG is not enough, many social-impact driven ventures do not comply with quality ESG. What investors are missing is that these ESG standards need to be EMBEDDED in the business model of companies "The reason is that these criteria have been developed without regard to the causal link between a company’s social impact and its bottom line". This has stopped
Audrey Choi: How to make a profit while making a difference
Audrey Choi is the Chief Marketing Officer and Shicef Sustainability Officer or Morgan Stanley. This powerful talk by one of the leading figures of ESG and impact investing reflects on the power of individuals, consumers and investors, to turn the financial market into the platform for social change that is needed in the world.
Everything is ESG now
Unpacking ESG, ETFs and the difference between active and passive investments in the ESG space.