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2012 press releases
Only nine percent of investment strategies attain top ESG ratings – Mercer
13 February 2012
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With more than 5,000 fund management strategies now assigned an ESG rating within Mercer’s Global Investment Manager DatabaseTM (GIMD), Mercer sees both innovation and opportunity for improvement
Only 9% of more than 5,000 investment strategies achieve the highest environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings, according to an analysis performed by Mercer’s Investments business. Since 2008, Mercer has been assigning ESG ratings to investment strategies that span asset classes and geographic regions.
With trillions of dollars still at stake, leading institutional investors are addressing climate change risk via asset allocation and other initiatives
11 January 2012
Follow up survey, led by Mercer, to groundbreaking climate change scenario report reveals more than half of participating investors have taken or are planning action based on findings
With the trillions of dollars of identified investment risks and opportunities still hanging in the balance, more than half of the participants in the 2011 “Climate Change Scenarios – Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation” collaborative study led by Mercer are taking or planning actions related to its findings, according to a Mercer follow-up report and case studies entitled, “Through the Looking Glass – How Partners are Applying the Results of the Climate Change Scenarios Study”.
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