Corporate Governance Think-Tank to ESG Indexes: “Show Us Your Math” In its early days, environmental, social, and (corporate) governance (ESG) investing was aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change by limiting investments in companies emitting considerable amounts of greenhouse gasses. Over more than 30 years (the first ESG index was launched in 1990), some …
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If ESG ratings leave you confused, you’re not alone. In general, environmental, social, and governance investing is mired in inconsistencies, with the funds and indexes having vastly different approaches. While ESG ratings aim to help investors, they often just confuse the matter further. Researchers associated with the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Sustainability Initiative have …
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S&P Global announced in late April that it would drop Tesla from its widely followed ESG Index, citing a lack of low carbon strategy, claims of racial discrimination and crashes related to the automaker’s Autopilot self-driving software. At the same time, the index added oil refiner Phillips 66 and oil producer Marathon Oil to the …
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