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ESG in manager selection: how asset owners choose and monitor external managers
For most asset owners, sustainability commitments are executed by someone else. The pension fund sets the climate policy, but external managers pick the stocks, cast the votes, and run the engagements. That delegation chain is where ESG strategy either becomes real or quietly dissolves, which is why manager selection is the moment the two questions […]
Global State of Investor Climate Action: what 220 investors’ disclosures reveal
Ask an institutional investor whether climate matters to their portfolio and nearly all of them will say yes. Ask their disclosures, and the answer gets more interesting. The Investor Agenda’s new report, the Global State of Investor Climate Action, benchmarks more than 220 institutional investors (101 asset owners and 120 asset managers) across seven regions, […]
ESG benchmarking for nonprofits: turning corporate disclosure into accountability
Nothing moves a company quite like seeing its name below a competitor’s on a published list. The World Benchmarking Alliance built its entire theory of change on that fact, benchmarking 2,000 of the world’s most influential companies on the belief that ranking performance creates “accountability for those that fail to act.” For nonprofits, NGOs, and […]
ESG scoring: how to build a defensible methodology (and apply it at scale)
Every serious sustainability decision eventually becomes a scoring problem. Whether you are comparing portfolio companies, screening a target, or assessing members of a coalition, at some point the judgment has to compress into something comparable: a score. And that is where the trouble starts, because the third-party scores most teams inherit disagree with each other, […]
AI ESG due diligence: how investment teams screen deals without slowing them down
ESG due diligence has a timing problem. Deal windows are measured in weeks, but a proper review of a target’s sustainability disclosures (reports, policies, ratings, controversies, regulatory exposure) takes an analyst days of reading, and that is for one target with clean documentation. So teams compromise: they sample the documents, lean on a questionnaire, or […]
AI for nonprofits: how mission-driven teams scale sustainability assessment
Nonprofits have adopted AI faster than almost anyone expected: a Virtuous survey of 346 nonprofit organizations found that 92% now use AI in some capacity. The same survey found that only 7% report major improvements in their ability to achieve their mission. That gap says something important: most nonprofits are using AI to speed up […]
AI for asset managers: how investment teams turn ESG disclosure into decisions
Asset managers are drowning in sustainability data and starved of the time it takes to make sense of it. A single portfolio company can publish a 200-page sustainability report, a TCFD-aligned climate disclosure, a CDP response, and a stack of regulatory filings — and that is just one name among the hundreds a typical portfolio […]
12 best AI tools for sustainable investing in 2026
Sustainable investing has a workload problem that keeps growing faster than teams do. Nearly three quarters of asset owners now apply sustainability considerations, 85% are significantly concerned about climate risk, and the disclosures those convictions run on keep multiplying: sustainability reports, transition plans, voting records, controversy feeds, and regulatory filings across every holding. The Global […]
The false trade-off between competitiveness and sustainability
Framing the Omnibus I package as driving ‘competitiveness’ misses a key point about competitive advantage in the 21st century. By Laura Zizzo This article was originally published in ESG Today. Last month, the EU officially passed the Omnibus I simplification package, significantly scaling back its proposed climate disclosure regulations. This is a big deal: more […]
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