Corporates - Do not FAIL your sustainability reporting

ESG* Reporting – Dear Corporates – Do not FAIL your sustainability reporting

Dear Corporates – Do not FAIL your sustainability reporting I just had to write something about this. We’re in the middle of updating a lot of ESG research reports as companies now have for the most released their 2020 annual reports and sustainability reporting, etc. Common for them all is that we see an increase […]
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Hvor grønn er norsk kapitalforvaltning sustainAX

Hvor «grønn» er egentlig norsk kapitalforvaltning?

Hvor «grønn» er egentlig norsk kapitalforvaltning? Finanstilsynet publiserte nylig resultatene av en undersøkelse om norske kapitalforvalternes arbeid med bærekraft. Innledningsvis skal det sies at siden de fleste forvalterne satt med gode kunnskaper om Offentliggjøringsforordningen (SFDR Level 1 rammeverket), ble det veldig forvirrende med Finanstilsynets ordvalg som ikke refererte til dette rammeverket direkte. Er et «grønt» […]
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Renewable sector dilemmas

How ESG* analysts should think – Dilemmas in the renewable energy utility sector

How ESG* analysts should think – Dilemmas in the renewable energy utility sector We have just finished an ESG sector research report on the Norwegian hydroelectric power producers. The descriptive sector report with some of our conclusions can be found here: https://sustainax.docsend.com/view/4yht7yqepwbkymf5 There are a certain number of dilemmas that an ESG analyst stumble over […]
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How ESG* analysts should think – Small and private companies get lower ESG score – How to deal with this?

How ESG* analysts should think – Small and private companies get lower ESG score – How to deal with this? Small companies and/or private companies often get a lower ESG risk scoring, why is this? In this article, I am making abstraction from the fact that many small companies score well on ESG opportunity, particularly […]
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ESG* Integration – Why Sustainability is not the end of the theory of Shareholder Value Maximisation

I see some voices are claiming that the sustainability focus we now see in investing and in the society at large is the start of the fall of capitalism and shareholder value maximisation. This is based on the thought that shareholder value maximisation has historically emptied one natural resource after the other on earth or […]
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