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Sustainable-Finance Regulation — a Look Ahead for 2025
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Sustainable-Finance Regulation — a Look Ahead for 2025

Dec 3, 2024 Simone Ruiz-Vergote

2025 could mark a turning point for sustainable finance, with the EU’s CSRD and global ISSB standards driving transparency. Financial institutions will need to navigate evolving frameworks, balancing compliance challenges with sustainability opportunities.

Baku to the Future: What COP29 Means for Investors
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Baku to the Future: What COP29 Means for Investors

Nov 26, 2024 Guy Turner, Linda-Eling Lee, Oliver Marchand

COP29 advanced international carbon trading with key agreements. Mixed signals on the energy transition, however, affirm investors’ view of an uneven transformation, while investment to address climate-driven physical risk looks likely to continue apace.

Funds and the European Sustainable Finance Landscape 2024
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Funds and the European Sustainable Finance Landscape 2024

Oct 28, 2024

We evaluate European funds’ performance under sustainability regulations, including SFDR article 8 and 9 funds, EU Taxonomy alignment and new fund-naming guidelines, offering insights into regulatory developments and data improvements. 

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A Silver Lining for Climate-Tilted Bond Portfolios?

Sep 11, 2024 Alexander Schober, Juan Sampieri

Some sovereign-bond investors seeking to support climate mitigation might be interested in the idea of increasing their exposure to issuers with lower carbon emissions. Would this have been a good approach? 

Sustainable-Debt Dispatch
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Sustainable-Debt Dispatch

Aug 19, 2024

Integrating sustainability and climate risk and impact into bond and private-debt analysis is becoming an increasingly important aspect of portfolio construction. This paper discusses a range of metrics that could guide investors in making these assessments.

Who’s the Climate Expert on Board?
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Who’s the Climate Expert on Board?

Aug 19, 2024 Florian Sommer, Gül Demirtaş, David Muirhead

What’s the state of climate expertise on the boards of the companies in your portfolio? We provide a regional analysis and offer a framework to help investors make their own assessments. 

Social Risks and Opportunities for Corporates: Long-Term Performance in Global Equity Markets
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Social Risks and Opportunities for Corporates: Long-Term Performance in Global Equity Markets

Aug 1, 2024 Liz Houston, Drashti Shah, Xinxin Wang

What goes into an analysis of financially material social risks and opportunities? And what does it mean for a company’s market performance? Our analysis found that scoring on social-risk themes was a key indicator of performance. 

MSCI ESG Ratings and Cost of Capital
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MSCI ESG Ratings and Cost of Capital

Jul 22, 2024

We found a strong historical correlation between a company’s MSCI ESG Rating and its cost of capital in both equity and debt markets. Firms assessed as the most resilient to financially material sustainability-related risks financed themselves more cheaply. 

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Foundations of ESG Investing

Foundations of ESG Investing

How ESG integration has affected benchmarks and index-based, factor and active portfolios.

ESG Fund Ratings

ESG Fund Ratings

MSCI ESG Fund Ratings aim to measure the resilience of mutual funds and ETFs to long term risks and opportunities arising from environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.

ESG Now

ESG Now

The latest ESG news and research, from climate change to corporate action, in this weekly podcast.