Sustainability has moved out of the asset management limelight over the last few years. Faced with more political pressures and conservative policy agendas in some countries, firms in the investment industry are experiencing slower flows into sustainable funds, even in Europe earlier this year. Schroders has been a leader in sustainable investment for almost 30 […]
Aniket Shah is Managing Director & Global Head of the Sustainability and Transition Strategy at Jefferies, a global financial services firm ranked #1 in the Institutional Investor Survey for Sustainability in the US, Europe, Japan and Australia in 2022-2024. Shah talks with us about using a face-to-face approach to advancing the energy transition: investors walking […]
“What do investors want?” is the primary question motivating Graham Sinclair, my guest today and one of the pioneers in sustainable investing: from launching the PRI (Principles in Responsible Investment) into emerging markets in 2007, to working with iconic firms like KLD, IFC, Parametric and AIG on Wall Street. We sat down to talk about […]
Andrea Longton is an award-winning author and professional social justice investor. She has raised over 1 billion dollars for social justice investments in the United States and has advised on another 1.5 billion dollars worldwide. Andrea’s new book is titled The Social Justice Investor: Advance Your Values while Building Wealth and will be released this […]
Weather Trade Net creates data analysis tools powered by weather data for operational business purposes. Founder and CEO Elena Maksimovich launched the online platform to differentiate, quantify and report on the financial vulnerability induced by weather volatility in changing climate scenarios. The platform’s research regarding weather shock resilience and climate change adaptation projects demonstrates bankable […]
Trucost is the sustainability analytics division of S&P. In 2019 March and her team did the first analysis of S&P Global using TCFD (Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures) metrics to look at S&P Global’s physical and transition risks related to climate change. March discusses the findings.
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