AI / 11.09.2024

Generative Artificial Intelligence refers to AI products that are capable of creating new content, such as text, images, audio, or video, by learning patterns from existing data. Today such models are widely used by both individuals and businesses. In this article, we provide an overview...

ESG, Impact Investing / 27.08.2024

As the urgency to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and net-zero emissions by 2050 intensifies, impact investing has emerged as a powerful and essential tool to help meet these targets. Indeed, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), which defines impact investments as “investments...

ESG, Proxy voting / 23.08.2024

In recent years, shareholder proposals[1] on ESG topics have become increasingly prevalent and have garnered significant attention from researchers. Two 2024 reports analyzing ESG and anti-ESG shareholder proposals within the Russell 3000 index (including the 3,000 largest publicly traded companies in the USA) have evidenced this...

Climate change, Green bond / 05.08.2024

One of the most concerning problems today is excessive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To try to tackle this problem many governments use carbon pricing, a policy that assigns a cost to the release of GHG. This post will present an overview of the United Kingdom's...

Climate change, Green bond / 31.07.2024

Carbon pricing is a market-based instrument that aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an economy. Two widely used forms of carbon pricing are carbon tax and a cap-and-trade system. A carbon tax is a fee imposed on burning carbon-based fuels, such as coal, oil,...

Companies, Corporate Governance, Oil and Gas / 31.03.2021

After increasing deforestation and breaching indigenous rights in 2020, the Brazilian Government has inaugurated 2021 meddling in the Corporate Governance of State controlled companies, such as Petrobras, Eletrobras, etc. At present we are assisting to a confrontation between single CEOs or Directors and the Government. SVI...

Companies, Corporate Governance, Financial Institutions / 18.12.2020

MSCI, along with other predominant index providers, drops seven Chinese companies that have been labeled by the U.S. government as having ties to the Chinese military. Will this decision impede the international inflow of capital to China? What strategic importance does such a removal entail?...