Gustavo Bernal Torres
Climate Action 100+ Net Zero Company Benchmark
Interim cycle of Benchmark assessments provides investors with timely data to inform engagement strategies ahead of upcoming proxy...
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Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
Finance Groups Risk Being Kicked Out of Mark Carney-Led Climate Coalition
Independent body will have the power to eject members for not meeting new criteria such as ending coal financing. Beefed-up checks by the...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Apr 15, 2022
- 1 min
Goldman Sachs' Insurance Survey 2022
Eight-five percent of insurers in the Americas now consider environmental, social and governance factors when investing compared to just...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Apr 8, 2022
- 1 min
The Future of Investor Engagement
A call for systematic stewardship to address systemic climate risk. The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, which groups over USD 10 Trillion...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Mar 25, 2022
- 1 min
Stanford's Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing ("SLTI")
Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study long-term investing. With more than 100 trillion in financial assets...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Mar 25, 2022
- 1 min
Do Investors Understand the Long-Term?
"Long-term investor" is one of the most ubiquitous terms in finance, used over 3,000 times on the websites of the world’s 20 largest...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Mar 18, 2022
- 1 min
Asset Owner Due Diligence Questionnaires
The PRI has produced responsible investment due diligence questionnaires covering a range of asset classes. The DDQs are tools which help...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
Investors Rush to Dump Russian Assets After Years of Ignoring ESG Red Flags
Russia is the new tobacco. Or forced labor. Or apartheid South Africa. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered a sudden withdrawal by...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 18, 2022
- 1 min
The Case for Investing in Employee Ownership
Transitioning businesses to employee ownership has the potential to significantly reduce the overall wealth gap as well as the racial...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 11, 2022
- 1 min
CPP's Path to Net Zero
We commit our portfolio and operations to being net zero of GHG emissions across all scopes by 2050. We are holding ourselves accountable...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Jan 21, 2022
- 1 min
West Virginia Treasury Drops BlackRock Over Stance on Climate Risk
The State Treasurer is putting ESG in the political crosshairs by divesting from an asset manager based on its environmental and...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Jan 13, 2022
- 1 min
IIGCC Publishes Open Letter Calling For Gas To Be Excluded From The EU Taxonomy
Taxonomy is critical for investors trying to align their portfolios and investments with net zero emissions. The Institutional Investors...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Dec 18, 2021
- 1 min
Global insured catastrophe losses rise to USD 112 billion in 2021, Swiss Re Estimates
Natural catastrophes caused estimated global insured losses of USD 105 billion in 2021, the fourth-highest since 1970 ”In 2021, insured...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
UN PRI's New Case Studies
UN PRI released 17 new case studies of how global asset managers and asset owners integrate ESG factors into their investment process....
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Nov 26, 2021
- 1 min
Wall Street’s $22 Trillion Carbon Time Bomb
It’s not just the moral imperative of dumping fossil-fuel producers anymore. Now it’s a matter of financial health. According to Moody’s,...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Nov 26, 2021
- 1 min
How Investors’ Global Focus on Carbon is Set to Alter the Game
A survey from State Street of over 300 institutional investors about how they’re implementing decarbonization strategies and the...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
Measuring Portfolio Alignment: Technical Considerations
From the Portfolio Alignment Team, a group of experts promoting portfolios’ relative alignment to the objectives of the Paris Agreement....
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Oct 15, 2021
- 1 min
US Department of Labor Proposes Rule To Remove Barriers To Considering ESG Factors in Pension Plans
The Department of Labor’s explicit mention of government regulations could encourage more pensions to adopt ESG The suggested rule states...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Sep 16, 2021
- 1 min
The Updated 2021 Global Investor Statement to Governments on the Climate Crisis
587 investors managing $46 trillion in assets urge governments to undertake five priority actions to accelerate climate investment before...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Aug 5, 2021
- 1 min
Climate Action 100+ Zeroes In On Industry-Wide Decarbonisation
New Global Sector Strategies workstream will coordinate sector-wide engagement, inform investor expectations on company transition plans...
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