MSCI Sustainability Institute

“Investors have an unavoidable opportunity to help society withstand the impacts of a warming planet,” writes Mohammad Umar Ashfaq, the Institute's U.S. research director, who in the latest issue of the OMFIF Sustainable Policy Institute's Journal describes our work to make #climate adaptation and resilience investable. Read here: http://ms.spr.ly/6041lp7vB

We convene investment-industry practitioners, academic researchers, business leaders and policymakers for compelling encounters designed to produce clear thinking about the creation of sustainable value. Watch highlights from our reality check of sustainable investing and check out our upcoming events. https://lnkd.in/ecHK3ENy

Episode 3 of Theory Meet Practice is here! This time we are reading corporate sustainability news with Aaron Yoon, a professor of accounting and information management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, who breaks down the investment impact of financially materially ESG headline. Watch now https://lnkd.in/egUfeNgn

Could the future of sustainable investing arrive sooner than we think? Nearly half of attendees at our recent live event predicted that sustainable investing would become just investing; nearly one-third (32%) of ESG and sustainability-related funds, meanwhile, could be impacted by EU rules that restrict the language investment firms can use in naming and marketing their products, this analysis by the Institute’s Rumi Mahmood and our colleague Shuang Guo finds: https://lnkd.in/esE96uz3

How can investors prevent damage to Canada’s boreal forest that imperils #biodiversity and communities and impedes sustainable growth? We’re teaming with Canbury to pinpoint the impacts and risks at this year’s #PRIinPerson. Get in touch with the Institute’s Mohammad Umar Ashfaq to learn more and join us.

In our recent Theory Meet Practice episode we dive into the need for rationality in sustainable investing with Alex Edmans, a professor of finance at London Business School. He discusses the value of questioning sustainability and the need for granularity and clarity in decision-making. Watch the full episode now https://lnkd.in/ee3WByeA

Can sustainable investing find its footing amid a wave of critical scrutiny? This is just one of the questions we explored at our event this week in New York, where we hosted a crowd of leaders from across finance and academia for a reality check on sustainable investing. You can read the practical insights from the event here: http://ms.spr.ly/6046YqG5p

The biggest institutional investors overwhelmingly see climate change as the sustainability issue most likely to affect the performance of investments in the next two to five years, followed closely by environmental and biodiversity issues. See more charts from the survey: http://ms.spr.ly/6045YnNAT

If sustainable investing is your field, join us in New York on June 4 for a special conversation about sustainability and performance and the challenges of ESG. View the agenda and register here: http://ms.spr.ly/6046YgapE Together with leaders from finance and academia, we will: Review the latest findings on sustainability and performance, with Olivier Souliac of DWS Group, Kelly Shue of Yale’s School of Management, J.P. Morgan’s Daniel Rourke, and Ulrich Atz of NYU’s Stern School. Delve into divergence in sustainability ratings, with MIT’s Florian Berg, Carine Smith Ihenacho of Norges Bank Investment Management, and Limin Yang, CFA of CPP Investments. Examine the link between corporate diversity and long-term value, with Georgetown’s Reena Aggarwal, Mamadou-Abou Sarr of V-Square Quantitative Management, and Microsoft advisor Matthew Sekol. Work through the demands being placed on sustainable investing, with Sharon Hendricks of the CalSTRS board and the MSCI Sustainability Institute’s Linda-Eling Lee.

If sustainable investing is your field, join us in New York on June 4 for a special conversation about sustainability and performance and the challenges of ESG. View the agenda and register here: http://ms.spr.ly/6046YgapE Together with leaders from finance and academia, we will: Review the latest findings on sustainability and performance, with Olivier Souliac of DWS Group, Kelly Shue of Yale’s School of Management, J.P. Morgan’s Daniel Rourke, and Ulrich Atz of NYU’s Stern School. Delve into divergence in sustainability ratings, with MIT’s Florian Berg, Carine Smith Ihenacho of Norges Bank Investment Management, and Limin Yang, CFA of CPP Investments. Examine the link between corporate diversity and long-term value, with Georgetown’s Reena Aggarwal, Mamadou-Abou Sarr of V-Square Quantitative Management, and Microsoft advisor Matthew Sekol. Work through the demands being placed on sustainable investing, with Sharon Hendricks of the CalSTRS board and the MSCI Sustainability Institute’s Linda-Eling Lee.