Archive

  • ESG data webinar: Unfiltered data and AI under the MSCI microscope

    21 February 2020

    Speakers from MSCI and the EU's Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) will discuss how investors can make the most of unfiltered data, on a webinar hosted by Environmental Finance.

  • S&P integrates Trucost data into analysis and research tools

    20 February 2020

    S&P Global Market Intelligence has integrated climate data from Trucost into its portfolio analysis and quantitative research tools.

  • Best performing funds of 2019: Janus Henderson Global Sustainable Equity

    18 February 2020

    Tesla has helped turbocharge the fund's returns, writes Peter Cripps

  • Transition-focused index backed by Church of England pension

    30 January 2020

    The pension board of the Church of England (CofE) has allocated £600 million ($780 million) to a fund tracking a first-of-its-kind, custom-made, climate transition index, and issued a rallying call for other pension funds to follow.

  • S&P's proposed Paris-aligned index outperforms EU benchmark

    29 January 2020

    S&P's 'conceptual' version of an EU low-carbon index outperformed its EU benchmark over the past year, it revealed.

  • S&P Global completes RobecoSAM ratings unit acquisition

    13 January 2020

    S&P Global has completed its acquisition of the environmental, social and governance ratings unit from RobecoSAM for an undisclosed sum.

  • MSCI warns real estate investors of 2020 'brown discount' risk

    13 January 2020

    MSCI has warned investors in real estate that this year is likely to see increased risk of a hit to carbon-intensive assets, rather than a 'premium' for more environmentally sustainable assets.

  • MSCI launches two ESG corporate bond indexes

    10 January 2020

    New York-listed financial data firm MSCI has launched two corporate bond indexes weighted according to environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations.

  • The ESG data files, part seven, continued: Real estate - Social and governance data

    03 January 2020

    The market for data on the social impacts of investments in real estate is growing rapidly, writes Christopher Marchant

  • ESG data files - part seven, continued: Real estate and resilience

    02 January 2020

    Investors are striving to get a handle on physical climate risks, but the data is still under construction, writes Christopher Marchant