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...Leading proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services has an ESG ratings branch, as does credit ratings group S&P Global....
...One of the AFR100’s core principles was that native grasslands should not be converted into forests, said the World Resources Institute, which is a technical partner of the project....
...Felipe Perez, Americas director at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said that, while there might be “some politics” at play, price was the crucial factor driving the diesel imports....
...Roman Kramarchuk, head of future energy analytics at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said policy changes linked to COP28 were “inherently a long-term story”....
...The recent passage of a constitutional amendment to simplify the country’s complex tax system was broadly welcomed as a step in the right direction, with S&P upgrading Brazil’s sovereign rating one notch...
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...ESG ratings look and sound like the familiar credit ratings produced by S&P, Fitch or Moody’s....
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...Eighty-six per cent of S&P 500 companies already report through CDP, and 94 per cent of the UK’s FTSE 100....
.... — Kenza Bryan The lure of plastic offsetting A tonne of plastic bags protecting Australian bananas from insects as they ripen. A tonne of fishnets strewn across Thai beaches....
...Australia’s Port of Newcastle, the world’s largest coal export terminal, whose credit rating was downgraded to junk status by S&P last week, has much of its outstanding debt tied up in sustainability-linked...
...Bryan Armour, director of passive strategies research, North America at Morningstar expressed similar concerns....
...The other big problem is that the cost of hydrogen fuel has almost doubled from about $16 per kilogramme in July 2022, according to S&P data....
...Instead, 2023’s kingpin was Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At A Time, which sold the equivalent of 5.4mn albums, making it the biggest album in eight years....
...The S&P 500 has hit multiple record highs over the past month, while the tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite was within touching distance of its own record this week....
...ing] uncapped exposure to the S&P 500, while buffering against the possibility of significant losses”....
...“Historically converts had sometimes been seen as one of those spivvier products that investment-grade names stayed away from,” said Bryan Goldstein, who advises companies on convertible deals at Matthews...
...In an interview with newspaper Folha de S.Paulo as the trial began on Thursday, the former president said he wanted to stay “100 per cent active in politics” and that any verdict of ineligibility would be...
Brussels unlocks funds for Hungary in hopes of more support for Ukraine
...“I suspect the money following the S&P 500, if that is what they go into, is much larger,” he added. “The S&P 500 is just a bigger pot. The FTSE is a dot compared to the S&P market cap.”...
...Ticker symbols have taken on an outsized importance in the exchange traded fund world, where pursuit of the kind of name recognition enjoyed by funds such as SPY, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, has become the holy...
...It was removed from the S&P 500 ESG index last year after it faced racial discrimination allegations and fears around the safety of self-driving cars....
...“When iShares competes directly with Vanguard on cost, like S&P 500 or total stock market ETFs, investors still reach for Vanguard’s ETF because those cheap, broad-market index funds are what [Vanguard is...
...(Kenza Bryan) Hiro Mizuno: Time to rethink ‘S’ in ESG Hiro Mizuno was one of the greatest proponents of ESG as a driver for long-term investing during his time as head of Japan’s GPIF....
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