ESG Articles and Reports

 

Articles

 

• Sophia Grene, "Investing in doing good can be a good risk management," ft.com, 2 November 2008
• Garz, Hendrik and Claudia Volk, "What Really Counts. The Materiality of Extra-Financial Factors," (PDF) London, WestLB AG Extra-Financial Research, 12 February 2007

• Brown, Alan, "An Investment Perspective on Climate Change,"  (PDF) Schroders, October 2007

• Llewellyn, John, "The Business of Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities," (PDF) Lehman Brothers, May 2007

• Edmans, Alex, "Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices," Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 30 January 2008

• Gompers, Paul A ., Joy L. Ishii, and Andrew Metrick, "Corporate Governance and Equity Prices," Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118, No. 1, February 107–155.

• Wolfe, Henry D., "Board Restructuring: Corporate Governance as the Path to Value Creation in Underperforming Companies," Journal of Private Equity, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 52–56 2006.

 

 

Reports

 

• Eurosif Sector Reports
• Eurosif 2008 European SRI Study (PDF)
• CEO Briefing − Carbon Crunch (PDF), December 2007
• Using the Global Framework for Climate Risk Disclosure (PDF)
• SSRN − Universal Owners and ESG: Leaving Money on the Table?
• SSRN − Risk-Return of Belgian SRI Funds
• SSRN − Internalising Externalities in EU Law: Why Neither Corporate Governance nor Corporate Social Responsibility Provides the Answers
• SSRN − Governance and Sustainability: An Investigation into the Relationship between Corporate Governance and Corporate Sustainability
• SSRN − The New Wal-Mart Effect: The Role of Private Contracting in Global Governance
• SSRN − Institutional Investors, the Political Economy of Corporate Disclosure, and the Market for Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility: Implications from the UK Companies Act (2006)
• SSRN − Societal, Environmental and Stakeholder Drivers of Competitive Advantage in International Firms
• SSRN − Environmental Governance
• SSRN − Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility: A Research Agenda
• Goldman Sachs ESG: Integrating ESG into Investment Research (PDF)
• RImetrics Measuring asset management competencies and practices, "Responsible Investment 2008 – An analysis and measurement of the competencies and practices of leading asset managers." (PDF)
• The Asset Management Working Group of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and Mercer Investment Consulting, "Demystifying Responsible Investment Performance—A Review of Key Academic and Broker Research on ESG Factors." (PDF) A joint report by the Asset Management Working Group of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and Mercer, 24 October 2007.
• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer study in cooperation with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, "A Legal Framework for the Integration of Environmental, Social and Governance Issues into Institutional Investment," (PDF) October 2005.

• Mercer Investment Consulting, "The Language of Responsible Investment: An Industry Guide to Key Terms and Organizations," 2007

• United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, "Sustainability Management and Reporting: Benefits for Financial Institutions in Developing and Emerging Economies," (PDF) Project report, December 2006.

• Alliance Bernstein, "Abating Climate Change: What Will Be Done and the Consequences for Investors," January 2008.

• Ambachtsheer, Jane, "A Climate for Change: A Trustee’s Guide to Understanding and Addressing Climate Risk," Mercer Investment Consulting report for the Carbon Trust and the Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change. August 2005.

• Anderson, Miranda, and David Gardiner, "Managing the Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change: Climate Risk Toolkit for Corporate Leaders," Report, Ceres and the Investor Network on Climate Risk, January 2006.