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...FirstEnergy, an Ohio utility that has been charged with corruption, received a four score for “G”, S&P’s second-lowest grade....
...For example, the SSGA SPDR MSCI World UCITS ETF tracks the MSCI World index for an ongoing charge of 0.12 per cent, while the Xtrackers S&P 500 UCITS ETF tracks the S&P 500 index of US stocks for 0.06 per...
...But MSCI’s correlation with both S&P and Sustainalytics is below 50%. The S&P and Sustainalytics correlation is higher but still lower than expected . . ....
...Apply P&G’s trailing multiple and the business could be worth as much as $49bn. That would be a stretch. The US equity capital markets are in a deep freeze....
...“We’re in a rough patch right now with the global economic situation,” says Kevin Murphy, principal metals and mining analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...P&G said Astra Agro Lestari sold palm materials to Wilmar, one of the consumer goods group’s suppliers....
...However, lower ad budgets at companies like P&G are still outweighed by the number of companies increasing their spending to take advantage of continued demand from consumers, said Brian Wieser, president...
...The full annual round-ups from the likes of S&P Dow Jones Indices and Morningstar won’t be out for a while, but FT Alphaville got some of the preliminary data from Morningstar....
...The First Trust and L&G funds in the list have notably fewer holdings, but it’s the HAN S&P Global Clean Energy Select HANZero Ucits ETF (ZERP) that is most concentrated by this metric, with just 30 holdings...
...Some companies might score well on environmental issues but badly on the G and S by, for example, being led by a tweet-happy technoking with a supine board....
...In the supply chain rankings of 2007, P&G, Toyota and Walmart all had a peer ranking score at least double that of Apple....
...For example, iShares Automation & Robotics UCITS ETF (RBOT) and L&G Global Robotics and Automation UCITS ETF (ROBG) only have one holding out of their top 10 in common, despite both running to a global mandate...
...Legal & General Investment Management is planning to vote against the election of several Amazon directors, including founder, former CEO, amateur astronaut and full-time bodybuilder Jeffrey P. Bezos....
...was bumped down about 2 per cent by some of Monday’s tumult, but David Martin, commodities strategy head at BNP Paribas, offered this bullish read: The outperformance of Brent against other markets, e.g....
...The divestment, coupled with the hit from the Covid-19 pandemic, has meant that Coty’s $4.6bn in annual revenue in its last financial year to end June was basically the same as before the P&G deal....
...In November 2020, MSCI downgraded P&G’s ESG rating to A from AA. Peltz started on the company’s board in 2018....
...Merck sold its consumer products division to P&G in 2018. A year later GSK and Pfizer formed a joint venture from their consumer products divisions, which they plan to spin off next year....
...It’s the sort of message that has become de rigueur since governance put the G in ESG....
...I think this too (at least the “E” and “S” parts; there may be hope for “G”), but it means a lot more coming from him, and he does not hold back....
...P&G has come under fierce criticism from some investors over its role in deforestation to make products such as toilet paper, even as it has pledged to fund tree restoration projects....
...“Tesla’s bitcoin investment does not have an impact on its ESG score,” said S&P Global....
...After a stint at P&G, he went to Pepsi in the US, where he helped turn its cans from red to blue. Mark Damazer, the former Radio 4 controller, remembers his arrival at the BBC in 2005....
...Last year billions of pounds were pulled from Schroders, the largest UK manager by market value, and its rivals Standard Life Aberdeen and M&G....
...But it took far longer to integrate the P&G business than planned, and a series of problems in the supply chain and operations began to drag on performance....
...Famously, a RJR Nabisco boss once flew his dog by corporate jet under the passenger name “G Shepherd”....
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