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Achieving net zero: It starts in the mind

The CFA Institute mission to help the investment industry understand and fully implement net-zero investing is ramping up. Following the launch of its groundbreaking paper: Net Zero in the Balance: A Guide to Transformative Industry Thinking, the global association of investment professionals continues to highlight the financial risks of climate change and the potential returns […]

Leng OhlssonJanuary 22, 2025

Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing

Can global funds managers meet universal ownership demands of clients?

Elizabeth Corley, chair of Schroders plc and Impact Investing Institute, sees global fund managers approaching a crossroads, where divergent regulation on sustainability issues will make it difficult to satisfy asset owner demands for systems thinking and universal ownership.

Amanda WhiteDecember 18, 2024

FIS Oxford 2024

Why the impact of technology is limited only by the laws of physics

The potential of technology is constrained only by the laws of physics, whether classical or, increasingly, quantum. As the power of technology increases it allows us to understand the world in a lot more detail – including why the current path to net-zero isn’t going to work.

Simon HoyleDecember 6, 2024

FIS Oxford 2024

‘Opportunity to lose a lot of money’ in net zero investments

Allocating capital to net zero opportunities doesn’t mean investors are prepared to do charity. In a universe of potential transition solutions, Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics Cameron Hepburn at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford said investors should look at them with some filters.

Darcy SongNovember 27, 2024

Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing

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

Achieving net zero: It starts in the mind

Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing

Can global funds managers meet universal ownership demands of clients?

FIS Oxford 2024

Why the impact of technology is limited only by the laws of physics

FIS Oxford 2024

‘Opportunity to lose a lot of money’ in net zero investments

Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing

The complexity, limitation, evolution and liberation of climate benchmarks

Decisions to Enable Net Zero Investing

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

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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments)

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