Release date- 12082019 - Millennials Get Much of the Attention for Driving Socially Responsible Investing, but Older Generations Are Also Interested, According to the
ESG Investor Sentiment Study from Allianz Life.
The Sy-owned conglomerate has been among the first companies in the country to embrace
ESG practices, also including these initiatives in all its reportorial.
While Facebook did well when it came to the environmental piece of
ESG, it was the social and governance that sunk the social networking firm.
Since
ESG funds typically have higher fees (due to the costs of in-house research or licensing third-party sustainability scores) and tracking error (since the mandate often requires tilting away from large market capitalization stocks), it is far from a foregone conclusion that
ESG scores contain enough expected return information to overcome these initial drags on performance.
In evaluating the results of
ESG managers, "we do not make any concessions," says Bernhardt.
(NYSE: MSCI), a provider of critical investment decision support tools, has made available a series of global environmental, social and governance (
ESG) fixed income indices for the Canadian market, the company said.
Although
ESG has not yet substantially changed institutional investors' portfolios--including insurers' general accounts--it has impacted the way they analyze fixed income and equity assets, experts say.
HONG KONG, Feb 20, 2019 - (ACN Newswire) - BDO, the world's fifth largest accountancy network, has announced and honoured today the winners of the second BDO
ESG Awards ("the Awards").
LONDON: PGIM Investments is expanding its global UCITS footprint with the addition of its first
ESG equity fund joining a number of fixed income funds incorporating an
ESG process.