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  • Carbon is 'most suitable metric for smart beta ESG'

    01 August 2018

    Investors deemed carbon as the most suitable environmental, social, governance (ESG) metric for inclusion in a smart beta investment strategy, according to a study. Seventy-four percent of investors selected carbon as being suitable for inclusion into smart beta, followed by other ESG metrics like water (21%), waste (20%) and gender diversity (18%).

  • EF BRIEFS: Goldman Sachs, Moody's, Oxford SSEE

    30 November 2015

    Green investment opportunities have become "too big to ignore", according to a report by Goldman Sachs.

  • European utilities urged to stress-test investments to avoid stranded assets

    17 January 2014

    Utilities in the EU should stress-test existing and planned investments to avoid stranded asset risk, a report has urged after some €6 billion ($8 billion) of gas-fired power was shuttered in the region last year.

  • China's environmental drive 'could strand Australian coal assets'

    17 December 2013

    Australian coal assets are at risk of becoming devalued if China's demand for the commodity declines, a report has warned.

  • Coal assets to suffer most from fossil fuel 'divestment stigma'

    08 October 2013

    Coal stocks are more vulnerable than oil and natural gas to the fossil fuel divestment movement, according to a new study which has called on investors to evaluate the "poorly understood and regularly mispriced" environmental risks in their portfolios.

  • Agriculture assets at 'significant risk' of becoming devalued – report

    09 August 2013

    Climate change could cause assets in the agriculture sector to become 'stranded', a report has claimed, warning that an extreme loss of natural capital could result in $11.2 trillion being wiped off the value of agriculture assets in one year.