The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has described the growing social impact investment market as “increasingly relevant”. However, in a report the organisation adds...
Green bonds are changing investor expectations and making sustainable investing easier, according to the World Bank. The organisation also predicts that sustainable investment will eventually become...
Institutional investors increasingly moving towards low-carbon technologies and social investment are both amongst the environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment trends to watch in 2015, according...
Sustainable, responsible and impact (SRI) investing assets have grown by 76% in the US between 2012 and 2014, a report from the US SIF Foundation, the...
Investors managing assets over $2 trillion (£1.2tn) committed to growing a global market in the financing of climate change solutions at this week’s UN climate summit in...
Ahead of a meeting of world leaders in New York to discuss a climate deal next week, more than 340 global institutional investors, representing over $24...
As more institutional investors realise the potential risks around investing in fossil fuels, while the world moves towards a low carbon economy, research argues they face...
As investors begin to ask for more information around the risks of high-cost oil projects, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) has revealed that some of the...
As awareness of solar investments and the risk profile they offer increase, finance in the sector is gradually “coming of age” and attracting institutional investors, according...
Institutional investor Legal & General has criticised companies for rewarding chief executives for hitting earnings per share targets when share buybacks are involved. Instead the firm...
In order to make informed decisions, investors need access to non-financial information so they can assess the health of potential investments, former mayor of New York...
Investment professionals in the US are recognising the growing risk around investing in the fossil fuel industry, with three-quarters saying such risk is increasing. The fossil...
Despite facing strong opposition, Barclays has won the vote to approve the bank’s remuneration package following falling profits. However, 34% of shareholders, including Standard Life Investments,...
The view that says financial performance must be sacrificed if you consider sustainability when investing is “finally withering away”, according to Joe Keefe, president and CEO...
Almost nine out of 10 institutional investors say that non-financial performance information plays a pivotal role in at least some of their investments, according to a...