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What price is right for a low carbon future
Australia’s lower house of Parliament passed a carbon tax yesterday. It prices carbon at $23 a ton. India’s carbon tax is 80 rupees (about $1) a ton. So what is the appropriate price of carbon? According to Robert Litterman in his Financial Analysts Journal editorial, it is a complex equation that should reflect fundamental uncertainty
Investors coalesce around biodiversity to halt loss
Investors are coming together to push investee companies to act on biodiversity in the same way that they have collaborated to put pressure on the biggest polluters to reduce their emissions.
Momentum in Japan works well: Asness
By studying value and momentum in Japan as a system, because they are strongly negatively correlated, this paper by AQR’s Cliff Asness argues that despite popular belief, momentum “works quite well” in Japan.
New York fund manages in-house environmental funds
The $109 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund will internally manage $200 million allocated to companies in the FTSE Environmental Technology 50 and the HSBC Global Climate Change Index under the fund’s green strategic investment program.
Poor disclosure is now a systemic risk
Poor corporate sustainability disclosure and the absence of global standards is now a systemic risk for investors, said panellists at Sustainability in Practice which included chief governance and compliance officer at Norges Bank, Carine Smith Ihencho.
Predictive power found in manager culture assessments
Quantitative measurements of the culture of funds management firms can provide indications of the future success of those companies and also their ability to retain personnel, a study by researcher InvestmentQ finds.
Global pension funds lift transparency, but cost reporting still lags
Global asset owners have made significant advancements in the transparency of disclosures with the industry, showing unprecedented alignment with best practices in performance, responsible investing and governance disclosures. However, cost reporting continues to be a pain point.
Meet the investors trying to de-risk UK transition infrastructure
Amidst the vast investment demands of UK infrastructure, the widening gap between supply and demand is starkest in green energy and power where the government has set ambitious 2030 decarbonization targets.
Private sector reform needed for US public funds: report
US public sector pension funds will have to take a radical private-enterprise approach to reforming employee benefits and revising investment expectations if funds are to fulfil their obligations to existing and new employees.
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