Posts Tagged ‘ climate change ’
European Green Deal: Towards a Zero-Carbon Urban Environment (Part 3)
Nov 5th, 2020 | Filed under: Real Estate, Newly Added, Alternative energy, ESG, Climate change, Real Estate Equity Investments, Real Assets, SRI and Clean EnergyPart 3: Real Estate Tenants: Free Riders or Simply Uninformed? CHRISTOS ANGELIS, CAIA – Director at Masterdam This is the third article in this series. Please read Part 1 & Part 2. BLAME GAME BETWEEN TENANTS & LANDLORDS The European Green Deal (EGD)[i] is expected to be a catalyst forRead More
Canadian Farmland – Feeding the World in a Changing Climate
Jul 19th, 2020 | Filed under: Agriculture, Newly Added, Farmland, Natural Resources and Land, Real Assets
By Joelle Faulkner, Founder and CEO & Max Pentland, Analyst, Area One Farms As our climate and population are rapidly changing on a global scale, Canadian farmland appears to be an increasingly attractive investment. Rising populations and temperatures will likely cause farmland values in Canada to appreciate, driven by demand for agriculturalRead More
SAVING THE WORLD BY ‘TECHNOLOGIZING’ INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT
Jun 21st, 2020 | Filed under: Newly Added, Alternative data, Institutional Investing, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Alternative Investments in Context, ESG, Endowments & Foundations, Climate change, Institutional Asset Management, Machine Learning, Other Topics in A.I.By Ashby Monk, Executive and Research Director at Global Projects Center, Stanford University & Dane Rook, Research Engineer at Global Projects Center, Stanford University “The world needs institutional investors to save society as we know it.” Say these words to your mother, and she may check your temperature; say them at aRead More
How Often Do Investors Google ‘Climate Change’?
Jun 2nd, 2020 | Filed under: Newly Added, Socially responsible investing, Alternative Investments in Context, ESG, Climate change, Other Topics in A.I.Two scholars at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark have devised what they call a “text-based sustainability sentiment measure,” that is, a quantification of when and to what extent concerns about climate change are rising amongst investors, with a likely consequence for the success of an ESG-oriented trading policy. The authors areRead More
Climate: The ‘OUR’ Between Dog and Wolf
Feb 10th, 2020 | Filed under: Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Media Coverage of Hedge Funds, Socially responsible investing, The Global Economy & Currencies, What about beta?, Alternative Investments in Context, ESG, Economics, Climate change, Institutional Asset Management, Hedge Funds, Macroeconomics, Private Investments, SRI and Clean Energy, Finance & Economics, Other Topics in A.I.By Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association While this week’s post may harken to a certain book written by John Coates, there is a different play on the metaphor at work here, with our wheezing planet spinning in the center. Consider the wolf: powerful, aggressive, and risk-seeking. The wolf is alsoRead More
Leery Funk’s Open Letter to Sovereign Leaders
Jan 27th, 2020 | Filed under: Consultants, Retail Investing, Private Equity, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, The Global Economy & Currencies, What about beta?, Alternative Investments in Context, Endowments & Foundations, Economics, Climate change, Institutional Asset Management, Macroeconomics, Private Investments, Finance & EconomicsBy Bill Kelly, CAIA Association CEO In the interest of brevity, I am going to skip the salutation and get right to the heart of the matter. As my name implies, I am Leery of the lofty promises that depend on solving our long-term problems and I do remain inRead More
SASB + TCFD = Common ESG Disclosure Standards?
Jan 26th, 2020 | Filed under: Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Risk management, ESG, Climate change, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Asset Management, Risk Management Strategies & Processes, Macroeconomics, Risk Management & Operations, Other Topics in A.I.The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), a non-profit organization has developed industry-specific standards across environmental, social, and governance topics, working toward a consensus on the sorts of disclosures that the issuers of securities should and will make to their investors. In November 2018, SASB released complete standards for 77 industries.Read More
Of Colossal Fools and Fossil Fuels
Oct 15th, 2019 | Filed under: Social investing, Newly Added, Socially responsible investing, The Global Economy & Currencies, What about beta?, Alternative energy, Business News, Economics, Climate change, Macroeconomics, SRI and Clean Energy, Other Topics in A.I.By Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association The saying “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” has its origins all the way back to the 1600’s when most of the carbon now in our atmosphere was “safely” encased in limestone and other rock formations within theRead More
Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence as Investment Mega-Trends
Sep 24th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Newly Added, Alpha Strategies, Venture capital, The Global Economy & Currencies, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Frontier markets, Emerging Alternative Investments, Private Investments, SRI and Clean Energy, Other Topics in A.I.A report from CREATE in collaboration with BNY Mellon looks at two related megatrends in investing—climate change and artificial intelligence. It asks in each case: how is this trend perceived in terms of opportunities and risks? What are the specific investment issues involved or solutions likely to be adopted? AndRead More
The Environmental Road to the Future is Paved…in Green
Jul 1st, 2019 | Filed under: Social investing, Newly Added, Socially responsible investing, Climate change, The A.I. Industry, SRI and Clean Energy, Other Topics in A.I.By Diane Harrison In January of this year, the World Economic Forum published an article, A Business Model for Sustainability, which highlighted a couple of key points relating to the growing interest in green business practices: Global finance is also inching toward sustainability. For example, environmental, social, and governance assetsRead More
Earth to Kerth… It’s Our Day
Apr 22nd, 2019 | Filed under: Newly Added, Socially responsible investing, What about beta?, Alternative energy, Climate change, Emerging Alternative Investments, SRI and Clean Energy, Other Topics in A.I.By Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association The Urban Dictionary turned 20 years old last month. If staying power means anything, perhaps it is time to use it as a citable source for modern day lexicon of words like Kerth. It seems Kerth is a name for someone who connotes sweetness, politeness,Read More
Green Bonds: The Future of Infrastructure Investing
Feb 24th, 2019 | Filed under: Commodities, Infrastructure, Investing in Commodities, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Socially responsible investing, Operationally Intensive Real Assets, Climate change, Institutional Asset Management, Hedge Funds, Commodities, Private Investments, Real Assets, SRI and Clean Energy, Other Topics in A.I.Two scholars affiliated with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada, have taken a look at the future of green bonds, that is, bonds whose proceeds are employed to fund environmental initiatives. The paper, by Olaf Weber and Vasundhara Saravade, begins with a guesstimate as to the amount ofRead More
Steps to Attain Sustainable Development Goals
Feb 19th, 2019 | Filed under: Social investing, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Socially responsible investing, Other Issues in Private Investments, Climate change, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Asset Management, Private Investments, SRI and Clean EnergyAmber Fairbanks, a portfolio manager at Mirova, a division of Natixis, recently talked to Clarice Avery, a Natixis investment strategist on Asset TV about potential long-term investment opportunity in the ESG space. She described ESG as a way in which investors can benefit from long-term secular trends rather than tryingRead More
Do the Capital Markets Reward Low-Carbon Business Models?
Jan 15th, 2019 | Filed under: Commodities, Investing in Commodities, Newly Added, Socially responsible investing, Natural Resources and Land, oil, Alternative energy, Commodities: Examples, Climate change, The A.I. Industry, Commodities, Emerging Alternative Investments, Real Assets, SRI and Clean Energy, Other Topics in A.I.A new study by two scholars, an American and an Italian, presents evidence that financial markets are pricing the risk of reliance upon carbon, penalizing carbon-intensive assets and rewarding low-carbon assets. Irene Monasterolo and Luca de Angelis, respectively of Boston University and the University of Bologna, begin with the ParisRead More
Leveraging and Enhancing Catastrophe Models
Dec 27th, 2018 | Filed under: Newly Added, Risk management, Operations, Risk Metrics and Measurement, The A.I. Industry, Risk Management Strategies & Processes, Emerging Alternative Investments, Risk Management & Operations, Other Topics in A.I.I write these words soon after reading the news from Sundra Strait, Indonesia. In recent days, the eruption and collapse of a volcano there has set off a tsunami that in turn has devastated the coastal regions of Banten and Lampung, also in Indonesia. Much time may have to passRead More
10 Climate Change Actions for Pension Fund Managers
Oct 28th, 2018 | Filed under: Consultants, Social investing, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Socially responsible investing, Climate change, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Asset Management, SRI and Clean Energy, Other Topics in A.I.The International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM) has put out a paper on climate change and on the difference it makes for investments. The issue of climate change has, in recent years, gone from “being considered a niche issue to one of potentially major financial consequences for all investors,” oneRead More
Saving the World: One EM City at a Time
Oct 10th, 2016 | Filed under: Infrastructure, Newly Added, Operationally Intensive Real AssetsThe Global Commission on the Economy and Climate has issued a new report urging governments and major financial institutions to “scale up and shift investment to sustainable infrastructure as a fundamental strategy….” The report, The Sustainable Infrastructure Imperative, has no force as law or policy anywhere, but it may signalRead More
Climate Finance: A Priority for the MDBs
Jul 15th, 2015 | Filed under: Social investing, Socially responsible investing, Technology, Climate changeA new report from the World Bank says that six multilateral development banks delivered more than $28 billion in financing in 2014 that "address climate change" in one of two ways, mitigation or adaptation. Read More
Twitter for Geriatric (over 35) Investment Managers
Mar 4th, 2015 | Filed under: Alpha StrategiesDoug Friedenberg takes a look at Twitter as a random news generator on subjects close to the hearts of portfolio managers, and finds it invaluable for the information just beginning to enter your known universe. Read More
Windfall: a Book on the Rise of the Climate Investor Class
Aug 6th, 2014 | Filed under: Social investing, Alpha Strategies, Energy, Climate changeGuest columnist Doug Friedenberg reviews "Windfall," and looks at the potential for investing in a changing climate.Read More
Climate Change: the Science that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Jul 31st, 2013 | Filed under: Alternative energyGuest columnist Doug Friedenberg looks at climate change's investment potential.Read More
Frankenstorm, the Not So Black Swan: Climate as the New Risk Variable
Nov 13th, 2012 | Filed under: Alpha StrategiesColumnist Doug Friedenberg looks at why the American understanding of climate science has been exceptional, why substantial financial interests may bring it in line with the rest of the planet, and why portfolio managers should care in the first place.Read More