Category: ESG investing
Investors’ Top 5 ESG Challenges
This post is by Sponsored Content from Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by iShares by BlackRock. Investors’ Top Five ESG Challenges Investors in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) expect to dramatically increase their sustainable assets. In fact, sustainable assets are projected to grow from 21% of total assets in 2020 to…
A Visual Guide to 5 Types of Climate Indexes
This post is by Sponsored Content from Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by MSCI. A Visual Guide to 5 Types of Climate Indexes If average temperatures continue to rise at their current rate: 10% of the world’s economic value could be lost by 2050 A sea level rise of over 8 feet could…
Impact Investing: Building a Better World
This post is by Sponsored Content from Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by BlackRock. Typically, an investor’s main objective revolves around building wealth and then turning that wealth into an income generator. As a result, financial returns are accepted as the default performance metric. But what if investing could also address the world’s…
ESG Municipal Bonds: The Next Sustainable Opportunity
This post is by Sponsored Content from Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by Wells Fargo Asset Management. ESG Municipal Bonds: The Next Sustainable Opportunity When you think of sustainable investing, does your mind immediately go to stocks? Sustainable investing may have started in equities, but it’s now expanding into a variety of specialized…
Fact Check: The Truth Behind Five ESG Myths
This post is by Dorothy Neufeld from Visual Capitalist Fact Check: The Truth Behind 5 ESG Myths In 2021, investors continue to embrace environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments at record levels. In the first quarter of 2021, global ESG fund inflows outpaced the last four consecutive quarters, reaching $2 trillion. But while ESG gains…
Green Investing: How to Align Your Portfolio With the Paris Agreement
This post is by Sponsored Content from Visual Capitalist The following content is sponsored by MSCI. Green Investing: The Paris Agreement and Your Portfolio In Part 1 of the Paris Agreement series, we showed that the world is on track for 3.5 degrees Celsius global warming by 2100—far from the 1.5 degree goal. We also…
UN Sustainable Development Goals: How Companies Stack Up
This post is by Dorothy Neufeld from Visual Capitalist The UN SDGs: How Companies Stack Up Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing witnessed a breakthrough year in 2020 with the most fund inflows on record. Importantly, for companies that are judged according to ESG metrics, one way to track their progress is through their alignment…