What’s in a name?
Wrangles about ESG herald a time to step up on sustainable investing, not an excuse to give up argues Roger Urwin.
West Yorkshire prepares to up the pressure on Shell and BP
A new approach to holding the major oil companies to account will see the West Yorkshire Pension Fund, together with a cohort of other UK and European pension funds, demand BP and Shell explain their business plans in a world of declining demand for fossil fuels.
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Relaxing summer set to chill for net-zero aligned C-suites
IPR’s Julian Poulter takes a sobering look at the inevitability that net zero is somewhere between very unlikely and impossible. net-zero aligned CIOs he suggests a new focus on three areas of impact: clean solution capital, negative emissions technologies and Asia.
ESG: It’s really quite simple
Fiona Reynolds, long-time CEO of the PRI and now CEO of publishing firm Conexus Financial, responds to the rising denunciation of ESG investing and claims that over-thinking, over-regulation and over-standardisation is complicating what is actually a very simple investment philosophy.
As inflation batters, TRS eyes natural gas
Inflation woes dominated at a recent TRS board meeting. However the Texas-based fund, one of the few remaining investors in fossil fuels, has benefited from its allocation to energy and is currently eyeing opportunities in natural gas infrastructure as US producers gear up to supply global demand in Russia's absence.
No single right way: Constructive real-world pragmatism for finance
Examining and learning from the evolution of orthodox finance provides relevant insight to the evolution of ESG data and ISSB standards which like CAPM are simply social conventions. Greg Watson argues that adopting a “no single right way” mindset will create greater resilience in investment by promoting greater differentiation.
Measuring outcomes is what really matters: Serafeim
Investors interested in ESG should be aware of the intensity of the commitment and develop their own deep expertise and impact-weighted accounts, according to ESG pioneer and academic, Professor George Serafeim. He will speak at the Sustainability in Practice event at Harvard University in September.
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