Archive

  • Zurich's Johanna Köb: investors can make a return while doing good

    18 April 2018

    Johanna Köb, head of responsible investment at Zurich, talks to Cintia Cheong on the importance of adequate pricing of greenhouse gases and how investors can make a profit while doing good for society and environment

  • Opinion - ICMA's René Karsenti

    16 April 2018

    The future of finance is green, says ICMA president René Karsenti.

  • Investors wake up to collective engagement clout

    26 March 2018

    Climate-related resolutions at Exxon and Shell garnered the support of the world's largest investors. Now asset managers and owners are massing together to move entire sectors, writes Michael Hurley.

  • Climate-related disclosure: a new dawn

    21 March 2018

    Numerous developments are helping to drive improvements in corporate reporting of non-financial issues and to raise investor expectations, says Adams Koshy.

  • Best performing funds of 2017: Pictet Global Environmental Opportunities

    16 February 2018

    A dramatic change in fortunes last year swept Pictet's Global Environmental Opportunities (GEO) fund to the top of Morningstar's table of best performing 'ecology' funds.

  • Impact investing and Sustainable Development Goals

    02 January 2018

    UN's SDGs are moving impact investing to the next level - taking the concept into the mainstream is way forward, argues Masja Zandbergen

  • The role of ESG in fiduciary duty needs clarity

    27 December 2017

    Investors should endorse the European Commission's mission to clarify how environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors form a central part of their fiduciary duty, Nathan Fabian says

  • Insurers reach 'tipping point' on climate change

    29 November 2017

    Concerns about climate change are influencing the underwriting and investment policies of a growing number of insurance companies, finds Graham Cooper

  • ABP 'big enough to go its own way' on ESG policy

    27 November 2017

    Dutch civil service pension fund ABP says putting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria at the heart of its investment decisions has taken it more than halfway towards its goal to cut the carbon emissions of its equity portfolio by 25% by 2020. Michael Hurley reports

  • Insurance giant Allianz on 'inserting ESG into its DNA'

    21 November 2017

    Allianz has divested from coal companies but has come under fire for continuing to insure the sector. Nick Roumpis reports