SVI Senior Partner, Daniela Carosio, takes part in the event at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna organized by CrossThink-LAB in June 29, 2018 to investigate the possible integration and coexistence between ethics, enterprises and finance. Professor Carosio contribution to the event within the panel together with representatives from Etica...
The environmental group that started Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal has recently published a research that shows that even the newest diesel vehicles fail to meet EU standards in real-world driving conditions. Financial Times and major news provider reported the news today, following the Volkswagen scandal and the...
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) announced the acquisition of oekom research AG as of March 15, 2018. Oekom is a leder in providing environmental, social and governance (ESG) rating and dara and in carrying on research on sustainable investments. The acquisition will result in the creation...
The University of Edinburgh is dumping all its fossil fuel investments, making it the largest UK university endowment fund to be completely free of all coal, oil and gas holdings. Following this decision, the University of Edinburgh will sell its final £6.3m of fossil fuel...
Sustainable Value Investors advices Wise and Corob Group in Corob Service acquisition managing ESG due diligence ...
NY City has set a goal of divesting New York’s $189bn pension funds from fossil fuel companies within five years in what NYC officials say would be “among the most significant divestment efforts in the world to date”. Currently, New York City’s five pension funds...
As of July 24, 2017 Morningstar, a leading provider of independent investment research with heaquarters in Chicago, announced that it had acquired a 40% ownership stake in Sustainalythics. Nearly two years after partnering with Sustainalytics to develop ESG ratings of funds, Morningstar acquired the 40% stake...
SVI Senior Partner Daniela Carosio takes part to "The Rights & Responsibilities of Institutional Investors" 12th edition as of March 10, 2017 in Amsterdam. A large and variegated panel of guest speakers is involved in a two-day debate around "Globalization and Its Consequences for Responsible Shareholders",...
The article “Today situation” by Daniela Carosio, SVI Senior Partner, was published in the Ned Community online review Nr. 30 as of February 2017. February 2017 represents a crucial period in Italy. Climate imbalances are making the human and economic costs deriving from disasters such as Rigopiano avalanche very...
As of October 14, 2016 Morningstar announced it has achieved an agreement to acquire PitchBook Data, Inc. PitchBook, founded in 2007, delivers data, research, and technology covering the breadth of the private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). PitchBook...
The article "SDGs and the contribution of independent directors to long-term strategies" by Daniela Carosio, SVI Senior Partner, was published in the Nedcommunity online review Nr. 28 as of August 2016. KEY INSIGHTS Companies ask for more juridical and political certainty to put forward long-term development strategies. It is...
Proxy adviser Institutional Stakeholder Service (ISS) has acquired Scandinavia-based Ethix SRI Advisors, a company that offers sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) research and consultancy in investment decisions. The company will be renamed ISS-Ethix. “This acquisition is in keeping with our long-standing commitment to expand our product offerings, provide...
Daniela Carosio, SVI Senior Partner, intervenes during Green Investor Day 2015 to contribute to the discussion on "The Green frontiers: Energetic Efficiency, Agribusiness and Biotechnology" (original title: "Le frontiere del green: Efficienza Energetica, Agribusiness e Biotecnologie"). The event is the ideal place for the match between "green"...
After a year, it is time to look back and make some considerations about the deal that never happened in Pharma industry. For further information, see the articles listed below: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e8320ccc-0327-11e5-8333-00144feabdc0.html?o=clippings/list#axzz3bd1cPd77 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/19/pfizer-failed-takeover-bid-astrazeneca https://www.reuters.com/article/us-astrazeneca-pfizer/pfizer-walks-away-from-118-billion-astrazeneca-takeover-fight-idUSBREA3R0H520140526...