Ben Goss on risk: What is sustainability’s impact on risk?
As the measurement of sustainability improves, the market will become more accurate in its assessment of risks
Over the last 12 months or so, extreme weather events, fires, floods and droughts have increased around the world. Consumers have seen the impact of climate change not only in their daily news feeds but in their portfolios too.
Clean power stocks have charged ahead as governments and investors back decarbonisation, while some fossil fuel companies have struggled as a result of a combination of the pandemic and investor sentiment moving towards sustainable stocks and bonds.
On 10 March 2020, the ESG – Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (SFDR) will start to apply. SFDR disclosures will be applicable both to financial products (e.g.,.
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In a tumultuous year, one of the key clear messages to emerge from 2020 was that environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns are here to stay. As mentioned in our 31 July 2020 article “ESG in 2020: A Half-Year Review,” although many investors feared that the focus on ESG policies would fall away in the face of an economic crisis, the opposite appears to have occurred. The pandemic instead has triggered a debate on what societies really value, and at the same time exposed the extent of global interconnectedness and the “tragedy of the horizon” whereby societies fail to plan in the longer term and only address issues when it is too late. This focus continued throughout 2020 and, as a result, many now regard the coming months and years as an opportunity to rebuild economies with ESG matters, corporate purpose and sustainability firmly placed at the fore. In this article, we review the key trends that emerged i
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