Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

S&P Global Ratings has announced that it is "no longer publishing" new environmental, social and governance (ESG) credit indicators in its reports. The decision comes after critics such as the ...

As environmental, social and governance, or ESG, factors have become more prominent in investing, there has been a growing need to evaluate companies and investments based on their ESG compliance.

Firms in the Gulf region are increasingly expected to align with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. Yet ...

Expanding disclosures to account for “ risks, dependencies and impacts” for biodiversity is arguably harder to track and extremely infeasible. Talk about an inconvenient truth. ESG reporting is also ...

In recent years, ESG investing has gained significant traction in the world of finance. Investors are increasingly looking beyond traditional financial metrics to assess the sustainability and ethical ...

Kerry calls for ESG to focus on economics, not ethics Critics say ESG enables greenwashing, lacks clear standards Political shifts, weak metrics cast doubt on ESG credibility Former U.S. Secretary of ...

Businesses are told to “measure what matters.” Increasingly, what matters to businesses today are environmental, social and governance criteria — known by the ubiquitous acronym ESG. As a general rule ...

Some 31,000 funds are about to have their ESG scores lowered at MSCI Inc., as the firm’s ratings unit works through a major overhaul of its methodology in response to feedback from market participants ...

One major question mark facing the sustainable investing world over the next few years, is what, if anything, should be done concerning the use of the acronym ESG. Sentiments range from divisive to ...