Analysis

• Book Review: The Green Swan's radical predictions fast becoming the norm

  17 April 2020

  A new book explores the role central banks can play to avert climate catastrophe. Christopher Marchant shares his thoughts.

  

• Amit Bouri on the "huge implications" of coronavirus

  16 April 2020

  The far-reaching ramifications of Covid-19 demand urgent action - and impact investors will play a key role in the response, the GIIN CEO explains to Michael Hurley

  

• A principled approach to impact

  16 April 2020

  The Operating Principles for Impact are set to bring increased transparency to impact investing, the IFC's Neil Gregory tells Michael Hurley, on the first anniversary of their launch.

  

• Driving governance in emerging market infrastructure

  13 April 2020

  Good governance can yield significant ESG outcomes and returns, argues Dean Alborough

  

• Insurance, pandemics and climate change

  10 April 2020

  Insurers have long been aware of the risks of a global pandemic, but have failed to act. They mustn't make the same mistake on climate change, Peter Bosshard writes

  

• Cat modelling awakens to climate change risk

  08 April 2020

  Responsibility for understanding the implications of climate change for insurers has largely fallen on the shoulders of the catastrophe modelling community. They are responding with a more dynamic and multi-faceted view, as Paul Walsh reports

  

• The ESG data files, part nine: Biodiversity - the new frontier

  07 April 2020

  Various initiatives from the financial sector could make this a breakthrough year for biodiversity data, ahead of a hoped-for global agreement on conservation for the next decade. Graham Cooper reports

  

• Social bonds and Covid-19 - The next phase

  07 April 2020

  Social bond issuers have a unique opportunity to do the heavy lifting in the fight against Covid-19, writes Christopher Wigley

  

• 2°II explains its break with Science-Based Targets initiative

  06 April 2020

  A disagreement that caused 2°II to walk away from the initiative boils down to whether it is appropriate to use the term 'science-based' to describe investor decarbonisation targets, writes Christopher Marchant

  

• Sustainable equity funds becoming all-weather investments

  02 April 2020

  The relative outperformance of ESG equity funds during the market correction caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic proves they can be all-weather investments that will appeal to long-term investors, Morningstar's sustainability research head tells Ahren Lester.