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• 'Investors won't play major role in transition'

  07 December 2021

  Responsible investors are unlikely to play a major role in the transition to a low-carbon economy unless their active ownership becomes more effective, the EDHEC-Risk Institute has suggested.

• The concept of low-carbon alpha is 'fake', claim academics

  11 June 2021

  Constructing equity portfolios using 'low-carbon' as a factor does not generate alpha, contrary to the beliefs of many investors, a paper has claimed.

• Low-carbon index space gets latest addition

  29 February 2016

  A family of low-carbon indexes has been launched, which claim to reduce the carbon footprint of a portfolio by more than 80% while outperforming the market.