ESG ratings

Passive managers, active ownership

Passive managers have greatly increased their market share. It’s more important than ever that they show best practice in active ownership by engaging on ESG issues and focusing on the long term.

Sarika GoelMay 1, 2017

Methodist morality delivers mainstream returns

When John Wesley, the 18th century Anglican cleric, preached that business practices should not harm one’s neighbour, he never imagined that his principles would guide the global investment strategy of an $18.4-billion pension fund. Today, the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the United Methodist Church, based in Chicago, ranks as one of […]

Richard TomlinsonFebruary 1, 2013

Research

Raising ESG ratings with improved returns

While environmental, social and governance factors may be all the rage in investment strategies, the right tools to measure results of their implementation would make tangible what skeptics might think are the emperor’s new clothes. Cue researchers Zoltán Nagy, Doug Cogan and Dan Sinnreich from MSCI with their December 2012 paper, Optimizing ESG Risk Factors […]

STAFF WRITERJanuary 30, 2013