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Episode 103 | November 23, 2020

What’s Ahead for ESG Research and Analytics?

Iyassu Essayas, Director of ESG Research at Parnassus

According to Essayas, the Covid-19 pandemic and the growing number of storms, fires, and other environmental disasters have affected every aspect of ESG analytics across all sectors of the economy. What will this mean over the next few years? Join us for this discussion as Essays explains that ESG metrics will be more dynamic, with […]

Episode WEBCAM | September 9, 2020

Webcam: ESG Fund Performance Amidst Covid-19

Paul Ellis, Paul Ellis Consulting; Katherine Davidson, Portfolio Manager/Global Sector Specialist at Schroders; Marie-Sophie Pastant, Head of the ETF & Index Management team, BNP Paribas Asset Management; Jake Moeller, Senior Investment Consultant at Square Mile Investment Consulting & Research

In investment management, performance during a crisis is a way to highlight a fund’s strength or weakness. Indeed, proving that your fund performed better than the market over a long period can drive AUM growth. In the current crisis, 66% of sustainable funds have performed better than their category average, according to Morningstar Direct data. […]

Episode 86 | June 10, 2020

Sustainalytics Taxonomy Expands to Address Emerging Social Challenges

Heather Lang, Executive Director, Sustainable Finance Solutions at Sustainalytics

Program recorded May 7, 2020: Lang explains how governments, international and local banking systems, are working with Sustainalytics’ Sustainable Finance Solutions to issue sustainability bonds and loans to address two areas that are being particularly hard hit by COVID-19: Health Care and Socio-economic Impact Mitigation. She notes that the recent uptick in social bond issuance […]

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