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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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Are Audit Firms Spread Too Thin?

Mar 28, 2024 Jonathan Ponder, Ahasan Amin

The auditing industry is facing several challenges, including fee concentration and a decline in practicing accountants. We assess the current state of play to identify potential areas of concern and the impact these could have on investors.

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Green Bonds and Climate — Towards a Quantitative Method

Jan 1, 2024

While examining use of proceeds remains a key element of analyzing green bonds, we highlight four additional metrics to assess these bonds and their issuers in a more quantitative way. They offer a new set of lenses with which to tackle the analysis.

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An Investor's Guide to Nature and Biodiversity Risks and Impacts

Dec 15, 2023

Investors thinking about biodiversity are asking questions such as, how do I know which holdings are most vulnerable to biodiversity loss? And, can I measure biodiversity risk exposure across my portfolio? We aim to help them start finding answers. 

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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

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