Sustainability and the Art of Doing Less

Temperatures keep rising at an alarming pace. According to the UN weather agency, CO2 levels are at their highest in the last 650,000 years, and so are the average temperatures, with the world’s nine warmest years all having occurred since 2005. With the battle for sustainability heating up, banks such as ING and DBS are rolling out sustainability-linked loans and investors are increasingly factoring in sustainability performance in their investment decisions. As BlackRock, the globes biggest investment firm concludes: “There can be little downside to gradually incorporating climate factors into the investment process — and even potential upside”.

 

Bettering Decisions with Portfolio Sustainability Assessments

Through Portfolio Sustainability Assessments (PSAs) companies are able to collect insights into the sustainability performance of existing product portfolios. But what how can companies capture the full value from these results? In general, PSAs...

 

Keeping Up with the Rise of ESG Investing Strategies

As their customers are increasingly asking for greener portfolio options, investors are left struggling to integrate sustainability into their portfolio management strategies. The main challenge for investors is coming from ESG data itself, which has...

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THURSDAY 7 MARCH 2019

Save The Date: DJSI Expert Training in Amsterdam, 7 March 2019

Following successful previous editions, Finch & Beak invites you to our DJSI Expert Training on Thursday 7 March 2019 in Amsterdam, organized in collaboration with RobecoSAM. Global practitioners and experts on ESG benchmarking will meet to learn and exchange best practices with top level DJSI peers. We will convene in the Beurs van Berlage; the Dutch capital’s former stock exchange located at a stone’s throw of Amsterdam’s central station.