Investors in ESG funds will end up with more exposure to Saudi Arabia than a passive investor, highlighting complexities in responsible investing. The article written by James Mackintosh on the WSJ of November 26, 2019 analyzes the difficult choices behind the selection of bonds of better emerging-market...
According to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, corporations, financial institutions and socially conscious citizens must pull us back from the climate change abyss. They have the muscle to make renewables mainstream and reposition fossil fuels as the tobacco of the energy industry. Sadly, the leaders of some...
Disinvestment / 27.09.2019
Investors’ focus on ” stranded workers and communities” needed for a ‘Just transition’
The Paris Agreement’s 2 °C objective requires that more than 80% of all proven fossil fuel reserves become stranded resources, and investments in such resources may become "stranded assets" for industrialized and developing countries. A ‘just transition’ for workers and communities as the world’s economy responds to...
The We Company’s executives, investors and advisers are discussing curbing WeWork voting power of founder Adam Neumann and removing his co-founder wife from a role in succession planning. Working towards its IPO, WeWork has faced criticism on its corporate governance standards, as well as over its business...
A US$ 500m ETF run by Vanguard that claims in its marketing material to specifically exclude "fossil fuel" stocks invest in several companies in the oil and gas industry, including oil services company Schlumberger, pipeline company Kinder Morgan and crude oil refiner Marathon Petroleum, as of...
News / 23.11.2010
Daniela Carosio participation at LSE Group Academy Class “CSR in communication plans and relations with investors and analysts”
SVI Senior Partner, Daniela Carosio, takes part to the roundtable "The different target of IR: the investor, the analyst, the operator, the financial journalist" within the course organized by London Stock Exchange Group Academy as of November 23, 2010 at Palazzo Mezzanotte in Milan. The class...