An environmental, social, and governance rating that overlooks the imminent likelihood of bankruptcy is worthless. And they are not the only ESG analytics firm selling flimsy ESG ratings. These ...

Today's edition of the New York Times featured an opinion piece that critiqued ESG investing--and not from the perspective that "values" investing is economically counter-productive. (For that ...

Uniformity is among the items on the wish list of advisors and investors prioritizing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies. As in uniformity of ESG ratings and scoring. Some market ...

Environmental, social and governance ratings are being used to boycott companies that do business with Israel. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images Israel boycotters have a new home ...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings providers will be policed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) under plans published by the watchdog citing concerns of conflicts of interest and ...

Filling out an ESG survey can be a nightmare. There are hundreds of data points to chase, and they don’t even effectively measure a company’s impact. Yet Alberto Alemanno, founder of The Good Lobby, ...

In 2004, the term “ESG” was officially coined with the publication of the UN Global Compact Initiative’s Who Cares Wins report. ESG is simply another way of measuring the centuries-old concept of ...

ESG ratings are predicated on the notion that companies with better ESG scores will exhibit better financial performance over time because they face lower ESG risks or are more adept at managing them.

On 19 November 2024, the Council of the European Union formally adopted the new ESG Ratings Regulation (the “Regulation”), following a proposal from the European Commission on 13 June 2023 and an ...

This article was written by Allison Nicole Smith. It appeared first on the Bloomberg Terminal. As the debate heats up over ESG investing, fixed-income professionals say they need more data than what’s ...

Remember when portfolio managers picked stocks based solely on a company’s investment fundamentals? Mundane things like valuation, earnings, growth prospects, profit margins? Some managers still do.