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  • 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.

  • "Pitfalls" in ESG ratings requires investor caution

    31 January 2020

    Investors should be cautious when using the growing number of environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings and data providers amid several inherent pitfalls, although valuable insights can still be drawn from them.

  • Trucost launches climate change physical risk analytics tool

    03 December 2019

    Trucost has launched an analytical tool to help companies assess their exposure to physical climate risk, as firms come under increasing pressure to assess and report the extent to which they are exposed to natural catastrophes.

  • The ESG data files - part four: fixed income data

    21 August 2019

    While the availability of sustainability-related data for fixed income investments is catching up with that for equities, much progress remains to be made, Michael Hurley is told

  • MJ Hudson buys ESG consultancy Spring

    17 July 2019

    Asset management adviser MJ Hudson has become the latest company to buy into the environmental, social and governance (ESG) advisory space, having acquired specialist ESG consultancy and reporting firm Spring Associates Responsible Investment Service.

  • The ESG data files - introduction

    26 June 2019

    ESG data has gone 'mainstream'. But how good is it, and in what ways does it need to improve? Environmental Finance is today launching a series of features to answer these questions. Peter Cripps reports

  • People Moves: BMO Global Asset Management, ClimateWorks Foundation, Japan's Financial Services Agency, Rockefeller Capital Management, Global Parametrics, Refinitiv, Aviva Investors, FIM Asset Management and S-Bank Wealth Management

    15 March 2019

  • Align with low-carbon transition to avoid 'negative credit consequences', S&P's Trucost warns big emitters

    11 February 2019

    Companies in high-emitting sectors can take action to align themselves with the low-carbon transition to avoid 'negative credit consequences', S&P's Trucost said.

  • ERM snaps up SustainAbility as industry consolidation continues

    14 January 2019

    Environmental Resources Management (ERM), a specialist consultancy with 160 offices worldwide, has acquired SustainAbility, the pioneering think tank and advisory firm set up by John Elkington and Julia Hailes in 1987.

  • SDG tool highlights climate and ocean risks

    07 November 2018

    A number of companies have scored badly for handling the negative impacts on certain Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).