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José Luis Martínez is the eighth chair of the research infrastructure forum. Over a two-year stint he has to help these shared facilities navigate challenges such as the energy crisis and at the same time prepare a new roadmap for 2026.

Zum 13. Mal in Folge hat es Schneider Electric in die Corporate Knights Global-100-Liste der nachhaltigsten Unternehmen der Welt sowie in den Dow Jones Sustainability Index geschafft. Das teilt das Unternehmen in einer Pressemeldung mit. Schneider sei im Branchenranking der Technologieunternehmen auf Platz 1 und in der globalen 100-Liste auf Platz 7 aufgeführt. Damit werde […]

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has issued a new research memorandum assessing the exposure of Asia-Pacific (APAC) investment funds to climate-related risks. HKMA analysed funds’ climate risk exposure by using both the historical and forward-looking metrics of companies held in their portfolios. Exposure to climate-related risks were likely to have an impact on wider […]

Calvert Research and Management, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), has unveiled three funds categorised as Article 8 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. The MS INVF Calvert Global Equity, Global High-Yield Bond and US Equity funds are actively managed and will incorporate a sustainability-related risks and opportunities assessment into their investment approach.

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), an industry network, has released its discussion paper on Scope 3 emissions. Scope 3 covers all emissions emerging from a company’s supply chain, including upstream production and downstream customer activity. The paper outlines investor perspectives on the importance and complexity of investee companies’ emissions in the context […]

TwentyFour Asset Management, the fixed income subsidiary of Swiss investment management group Vontobel, has upgraded one of its funds to Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The group said it had taken a deliberately conservative approach under SFDR guidelines, and that the upgrade stood in contrast to the wave of fund […]

Detrimental business The question of who bears responsibility for causing harm is a matter of attribution in a society that is detrimental to nature and a significant portion of its members. If the system is detrimental in itself, it is not the system that is guilty, but some parts of it, or their interaction. In […]

Ein halbes Jahrhundert wissenschaftlicher Forschung hat gezeigt, dass Unternehmen, die ESG-Grundsätze umsetzen, überwiegend eine bessere Qualität und Finanzkraft aufweisen.

Environment, Social und Governance – etliche Unternehmen müssen jetzt ihre Nachhaltigkeit erfassen. Wir zeigen, wen es betrifft und welche Tools sich lohnen.

Währenddessen verzeichnen auch Artikel-8-Fonds im vierten Quartal die höchsten Mittelabzüge jemals. Das Investoreninteresse nach nachhaltigen Anlageprodukten nimmt weiterhin ab. Artikel-8-Fonds haben im vierten Quartal 2023 die höchsten Mittelabzüge jemals verzeichnet, wie aus aktuellen Daten von Morningstar hervorgeht. Auch Artikel-9-Fonds, welche sich in den vergangenen Monaten weitaus besser schlagen konnten, verzeichneten für das vierte Quartal erstmalig […]

According to the Morningstar’s research: “The EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) requires asset managers to provide more information on the sustainability risks and impact of their investment products sold in the EU, with the level of disclosure depending on the sustainability objective of the products.”Article 8 funds, lacking a commitment to sustainable investments, experienced […]