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

3BL Media

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? Such answers don’t pinpoint meaningful impact, and any definition should be more specific.

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Clean200 - Resources

Corporate Knights

The data set is developed through assessment of a companys revenue that aligns with the definitions laid out in the Corporate Knights Sustainable Economy Taxonomy, primarily sourced from Corporate Knights research. The Clean200 uses negative screens.

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Clean200 - Resources

Corporate Knights

The data set is developed through assessment of a companys revenue that aligns with the definitions laid out in the Corporate Knights Sustainable Economy Taxonomy, primarily sourced from Corporate Knights research. The Clean200 uses negative screens.

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Responsible-investing trailblazer awarded Order of Canada

Corporate Knights

They represented an improvement over when corporate responsibility was measured only in the limited terms of charitable contributions or a corporation’s own definitions of “best practice.” . MH: Choosing among responsible investment tools – positive and negative screening, divestment and engagement – is complicated.

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Climate tops ESG Priorities for US Institutional Investors

Chris Hall

Under US SIF Foundation’s definition, ESG incorporation encompasses a range of strategies including ESG integration, positive screening, negative screening, impact investing and sustainability-themed investing.

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Intent on Impact

Chris Hall

In theory, the opportunity set is vast, meaning asset owners are often in need of definitions and frameworks to guide them from the reducing negative to accentuating the positive. You have to go back to the true definition based on intentionality, additionality and measurability. Vast opportunities.

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ESG Evolution Calls for Terminology Alignment

Chris Hall

Industry bodies align on key sustainable finance-related definitions to offer end-users greater “consistency and clarity”. In October , the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published research which showed funds with an ESG-related label attract higher inflows.