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Sustainable Investment in IndiaInvestors in Indian stocks will increasingly face major challenges from ESG drivers, according to the report Sustainable Investment in India by Delsus and TERI-Europe.
India’s booming stock market and recent run of large IPOs is attracting record inflows of portfolio investment capital. At the same time, however, Indian businesses face major social and environmental pressures as the economic surge puts infrastructure, industrial capacity and natural resources under ever-increasing strain.
The report, commissioned by the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office, highlights how many of India’s top companies risk failing to meet the ESG tests of international investors. Despite some notable exceptions, the Indian market as a whole may be ill-prepared for the risks and opportunities of sustainable investment.
To download a PDF of the report,
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June 10, 2009:
Brazil's sustainable investment market worth over US$40 billion
A new report co-authored by Delsus director Dan Siddy and Ritu Kumar of TERI-Europe indicates that ESG investment by Brazilian pension funds and mutual funds was worth over US$40 billion at the end of 2008.
The report, Sustainable Investment in Brazil 2009, was commissioned by IFC and provides a comprehensive analysis of the sustainable investment 'eco-system' in the world's tenth largest economy, ranging from the Sao Paolo stock exchange's Corporate Sustainability Index and PRI implementation by Brazil's largest pension funds to the latest innovations in sustainable private equity funds. Download a PDF of the report here. (2.2meg)
March 31, 2009:Report reveals first ESG rating for fund managers in emerging markets
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Gaining Ground - Integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment processes in emerging markets suggests that sustainable investment assets under management in emerging markets have grown to over $300 billion?or nearly 10 percent of total investment in emerging markets in 2008.
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Slightly more than $50 billion of assets identified represent funds labelled as sustainable investment, with the remainder reflecting mainstream institutional funds committed to integrating ESG within core investment processes. The IFC-Mercer report also produced the first rating on ESG practices of fund managers in China, India, South Korea, and Brazil, identifying best-practice examples to pre-empt ESG risks and enhance returns. The report can be downloaded here.(1.9meg PDF)