net zero

InFocus

The complexity, limitation, evolution and liberation of climate benchmarks

Benchmarks are highlighted in the recent CFA Institute paper as among the historical norms that make investing in climate challenging. MSCI Institute’s Linda-Eling Lee talks about the complexities and evolution of climate benchmarks including the use of balanced scorecard-toolkits that are improving the technology.

Amanda WhiteOctober 30, 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

Featured Story

CFA’s tools for tackling net zero provoke investing infrastructure re-think

Foundational research by CFA Institute aims to prompt the best minds in the asset management and asset owner communities to consider how to better consider climate risk. Institute chief executive Marg Franklin says governance, organisational design and systems thinking will be core elements of how the industry evolves its thinking and

Amanda WhiteSeptember 25, 2024

Investor Profile

TfL explains why hedge funds provide essential diversification

Padmesh Shukla, chief investment officer of the £14 billion Transport for London Pension Fund explains why he believes hedge funds are a crucial element to a diversified portfolio.

Sarah RundellApril 11, 2024

FIS Singapore 2024

Recasting emissions abatement as expensive rather than hard

When it comes to figuring out how a company will get to net zero and how their transition will be financed, more investors are making a distinction between emissions that are hard to abate, and emissions that are expensive to abate.

Simon HoyleMarch 19, 2024

Sustainability

NY Common makes further divestments, ups commitment to climate solutions

The $260 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund will divest and restrict approximately $26.8 million of corporate bonds and actively traded public equities in eight integrated oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil; and is doubling its commitment to the Sustainable Investments and Climate Solutions program.

Simon HoyleFebruary 29, 2024