COP27 is the world’s primary forum for governments, businesses and environmental organisations to tackle the climate emergency. At the signing of Coca-Cola’s sponsorship deal last week, Coca-Cola [...]
Investment Managers are scrambling to finalise processes ahead of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) product-level or “level 2” disclosure requirements taking effect at the end [...]
Hurricane Ian could be among the costliest in US history. The massive storm tour through parts of Florida at 150 mph is poised to cause between $30 billion and $60 billion worth of damages and [...]
The politicisation of ESG, inflation, market volatility and slowing GDP growth are among the key challenges facing pension funds as they seek to balance short-term economic pressures and structural [...]
The number of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) benchmarks and indexes demanded by the asset management community has grown at an unprecedented rate over the past two years. That’s [...]
Regulators are sharpening their focus on the growing importance of ESG data providers due to the subjective nature of how ratings are calculated. Last week, however, leading ESG ratings providers [...]
According to a recent McKinsey study, the typical “time to decision” for commercial lending is between three and five weeks, while “time to cash,” on average, fluctuates around three months. This is [...]
Gas prices have soared after Russia further cut gas supplies to Germany and other central European countries after threatening to earlier this week. European gas prices are up almost 2% trading above [...]