We designed the September 27th BSAS lunch session on ESG Integration to highlight a development that is further along than many in the investment community realize – the progress ESG is making towards incorporation in the mainstream. Putting it in
ESG Performance white paper asks a bigger question
A recently published white paper from RCM provides evidence of outperformance generated through best-in-class ESG investing. Because it examined a sizable number of stocks (more than 900 spread across three geographic portfolios) over a period encompassing a wide range of
The high cost of oil – in jobs
Efforts to address energy and climate challenges are now reflexively branded as “job killers” by one part of the political spectrum. Amazingly, this happens even when the proposals are defined in terms of their positive economic impact, as in the
Water…what is it good for…absolutely everything
Journalist Steven Solomon has written an epic social, geopolitical and economic history of water. At 490 pages and covering the world from ancient Sumer to the future economic opportunities for industrialized democracies in a multipolar world, it is comprehensive and
Large potential increase in domestic natural gas supply welcome, but not a panacea
Last week’s announcement of the Early Release version of the US Energy Information’s Annual Energy Outlook for 2011 prompted a number of reactions along the lines of the NY Times’s Green Blog posting “The energy future ain’t what it used