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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

GlobalData surveying indicates that companies are most likely to establish environment, social, and governance (ESG) performance plans in response to external regulatory and financial pressures.

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 ...

A provisional agreement in the European Union setting guardrails around the ESG ratings industry is being hailed as the world’s toughest. The plan goes “much further than any of the other regimes we ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the Kester and Brynes Professor at Columbia Business School and a Chazen Senior Scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for ...

Picking an investment based on ESG standards can take time and effort. That’s because there is no singular ESG scoring system for all companies – each rating agency measures each company by its own ...