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Why corporate reporting isn’t a proxy for progress

GreenBiz

Close to 90 percent of the S&P 500 now produce sustainability reports and a preponderance of academic research touts the link between ESG and equity returns. Two-thirds of what is dubbed sustainable investment comprises negative-screen funds. Excluding tobacco from a fund will not have any impact on climate change.

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GI Genius™ Named to FORTUNE 2022 'Change the World' List

3BL Media

patients who undergo screenings annually. With every 1% increase in precancerous lesion detection rates, the rates of interval colorectal cancer (cancer occurring after a negative screening) fall by %. A study demonstrated that GI Genius could increase the detection of hard-to-detect precancerous polyps by up to 14.

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AllianceBernstein: How Impactful Are Your Munis? Five Questions To Ask Your Manager.

3BL Media

ESG screening weeds out issuers that investors want to avoid, such as tobacco, gambling or oil. However, if your objective is to go beyond just a financial return through the evaluation of additional risk factors and negative screens, the best answer is impact investing. What’s your definition of impact investing?

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

As a result, to feel better, these investors want to screen out problematic companies from their investment portfolio. To serve this constituency, asset managers have long offered “values” or “socially responsible” (SRI) funds that offer a “negative screen.”