Gustavo Bernal Torres
Water Funds Dilute The Environmental Message
There may be an investment case for holding them, but it’s not obvious they are saving the planet. The investors who penned the open...
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Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
Texas and Florida's war on ESG
Politicians in some US states have been railing against so-called “woke capitalism,” targeting ESG funds in particular. Texas Comptroller...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min
Australia Financial Industry Body Sets Anti-Greenwashing Expectations for Fund Managers
The Financial Services Council (FSC), Australia’s financial services industry’s standards and policy setting body, announced the release...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Aug 12, 2022
- 1 min
Singapore Issues ESG Funds Disclosure and Reporting Guidelines
The objective of the new circular is to mitigate the risk of greenwashing by facilitating greater comparability in the disclosures made...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Jul 8, 2022
- 1 min
Cooling Of ESG Euphoria Presents An Opportunity For Investors
‘Naive’ initial stage of ESG is over. Markets are moving past the “euphoric and naive” initial stage of ESG investing and finally...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Jun 3, 2022
- 1 min
CFA's ESG Disclosure Standards Handbook
Complying with the Global ESG Disclosure Standards for Investment Products has just gotten easier. CFA Institute has published its Global...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- May 27, 2022
- 1 min
‘Collateral Damage’: ESG Funds Pulled Down by Tumble in Tech Shares
Funds focused on environmental and governance issues have heavy allocations to tech sector. Parnassus Core Equity Fund, with $25.9bn...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- May 13, 2022
- 1 min
Record High in ESG ETF Demand Comes with an Asterisk
ESG ETFs in Canada touch historic highs despite a constantly fluctuating market, with equity strategies leading the way. In April, $642...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Mar 4, 2022
- 1 min
ESG and Alpha: Sales or Substance?
This article sets aside the question of the social and environmental impact of ESG investing to examine claims that ESG funds deliver...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 25, 2022
- 1 min
Morningstar Has Cut 27% of the European Funds on its ‘Sustainable’ List
‘The sheer level of reclassification shows the scale of greenwashing that still exists,’ The research house slashed the list of European...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Nov 6, 2021
- 1 min
CFA Institute Releases Global ESG Disclosure Standards for Investment Products
New Standards mark the first global voluntary standards for disclosing how investment products consider ESG issues in objectives,...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Oct 7, 2021
- 1 min
Why Do ESG Funds Own Shares Of Facebook?
Facebook’s platforms have been engineered to make users angrier and angrier to keep them engaged. These are just a few of the conclusions...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
Fund Managers Start Axing ESG Buzzword as Greenwash Rules Bite
Some of Europe’s biggest asset managers are starting to drop a once-ubiquitous ESG label from their company filings amid concern that...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Sep 17, 2021
- 1 min
ESG Investment Funds Rife With Greenwashing: Report
Green funds sold by some of the world’s biggest asset managers are failing to live up to the climate goals set out in the Paris...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
6 Charts on SFDR Funds
On a European cross-border basis, 109 funds are classified as Article 8 funds, while 28 funds fall into Article 9. But what are the...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Aug 12, 2021
- 1 min
Understanding The Climate Performance Of Investment Funds
Analysis from Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership found that the present disclosure of fund performance does not allow...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Jun 24, 2021
- 1 min
Chinese Institutions Put ESG ETFs On Most-Wanted List
Survey reveals 80% plan to allocate up to 20% of their assets to the sustainable funds over next five years. Mainland Chinese and Taiwan...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Feb 20, 2021
- 1 min
ESG Demand Prompts more than 250 European Funds to Change Track
Repurposing helped push European sustainable AUM to €1.1tn by the end of 2020- In addition to the repurposed vehicles there were 505 new...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Jan 22, 2021
- 1 min
Sustainable ETF Assets Jump but Most Funds Fall Short on UN Goals
New tool developed with Unctad aims to counter practice of ‘green washing’- Assets under management in ESG ETFs jumped three-fold from...
Gustavo Bernal Torres
- Jan 8, 2021
- 1 min
Fourth Quarter 2020 Sets New Records for Sustainable ETF Launches
According to Sustainable Investing Research and Analysis, a record 18 new sustainable exchange-traded funds launched in the fourth...
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