Sustainability

Opinion

Piecing together the impact investing puzzle

Ben Thornley, co-founder at Tideline, looks at how value creation practices bring a manager’s impact credentials into sharper focus, the strong positive correlation between impact and financial performance, and the role of allocators in incentivizing and enabling managers to deliver impact value.

Ben ThornleyNovember 5, 2024

Investor Profile

Divestment and impact: Detailhandel pioneers participant engagement

Sarah RundellOctober 31, 2024

Featured Story

The complexity, limitation, evolution and liberation of climate benchmarks

Amanda WhiteOctober 30, 2024

How to nature proof portfolios

Sarah RundellOctober 23, 2024

Sustainability

Why patient capital will be rewarded for investing in timberland

Aleksi EhteeOctober 22, 2024

Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing

CFA’s guide to the whole framework on net-zero

Climate risk has certain features that stretch the imaginations and toolkits of investors, meaning a new framework that includes systems thinking is necessary to branch out from the narrow measurement and management of risk predicated on modern portfolio theory, says Roger Urwin.

Amanda WhiteOctober 16, 2024

Investor Profile

Utah’s URS: Why fossil fuels and alt energy hold key to climate crisis

US public funds should stop wasting time on thinly veiled political activism, ditch ESG conferences and repurpose most of their sustainability staff, says URS’ CIO John Skjervem. Instead they should invest in proven energy investments and move from either/or to both/and which allows fossil fuels to jostle alongside alt energy.

Sarah RundellOctober 1, 2024

Sustainability

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance chair calls for more action from governments

Five years after signing up to net zero, climate-conscious asset owners have a message for governments: act now, or put global prosperity at risk. As policymakers, investors and climate action advocates descend on NYC for Climate Week, chair of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, Günther Thallinger, reflects on the progress.

Amanda WhiteSeptember 26, 2024

Investor Profile

KLP continues the fight to get Chinese mining companies to change

As growing geopolitical tension and government control has caused some investors to exit China, Norway's $78 billion pension fund KLP has stepped up engagement with Chinese mining companies at risk of breaching labour rights and responsible extraction.

Sarah RundellSeptember 3, 2024

Featured Story

Catching up with reality: Investment beliefs need a rethink

Co-founder of the Thinking Ahead Institute, Tim Hodgson, thinks your investment beliefs are out of date. He says if they were written five or more years ago they aren’t grounded in a 2024 reality and inadequately consider climate risk and systems thinking, both essential for a modern day asset owner.

Tim HodgsonAugust 20, 2024

Investor Profile

Thailand’s GPF – where sustainability is more important than returns

Thailand’s GPF is a regional leader in ESG integration. Top1000funds.com talks to Man Juttijudata, responsible for GPF’s active investment and outsourced investments about the challenges – like how to treat EV companies – and how uses fund managers for nuanced assessment.

Sarah RundellAugust 8, 2024

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Sustainability

Opinion

Piecing together the impact investing puzzle

Investor Profile

Divestment and impact: Detailhandel pioneers participant engagement

Featured Story

The complexity, limitation, evolution and liberation of climate benchmarks

Sustainability

How to nature proof portfolios

Sustainability

Why patient capital will be rewarded for investing in timberland

Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing

CFA’s guide to the whole framework on net-zero

Investor Profile

Utah’s URS: Why fossil fuels and alt energy hold key to climate crisis

Sustainability

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance chair calls for more action from governments

Investor Profile

KLP continues the fight to get Chinese mining companies to change

Featured Story

Catching up with reality: Investment beliefs need a rethink

Investor Profile

Thailand’s GPF – where sustainability is more important than returns

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