Author name: ubaid ansari

Endowments and foundations have had an outsized influence on the trajectory of investment management, including sustainable investing. This article outlines the contours of an approach that a resource-constrained endowment or foundation could take to develop a sustainable investing program.

Impact investing was once the domain of nuns and other faith-based investors. Then trillion-dollar financial giants got in on the game. While most talk revolves around equity, there’s enormous opportunity for lenders, who are increasingly inserting impact-oriented provisions into credit agreements

This week, a group of experts released the EU Taxonomy, a classification tool to help investors and companies analyze the sustainability of potential investments and engage in two-way dialogue with investees on sustainability. Here is how to use the taxonomy, its implications, and what to expect.

US-Mexico border crisis is a multidimensional confluence of drug trafficking, immigration, and commerce. This article explores nine key facets, ranging from illegal drug demand to economic costs of border crossing delays and from asylum seeking across the Americas to law enforcement constraints

To catalyze the impact investing market reaching its $26 trillion potential, the IFC spent the past year developing the Operating Principles for Impact Management, which offer investors a clarity and consistency on what constitutes impact investing.

Sharing economy unicorn Lyft has turned to the public markets for growth capital. Accordingly, a wide range of investors will be able to purchase Lyft stock, which will trade on the Nasdaq, due to its strong overall ESG profile. The IPO is already oversubscribed.

In the year following the Parkland shooting, which killed 17 students and staff members at a Florida high school, investor strategic engagement efforts to limit gun violence have achieved key victories and faced setbacks this month. Led by faith-based investors, these efforts are building momentum.

Increasingly discussed in asset management firms, gender lens investing is one of the most rapidly growing segments of sustainable investing. Gender lens investing is an investment thesis that seeks to turn the abstract idea of an investment’s benefit to women into a functional investment strategy.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cover every facet of life on globally—social, environmental and economic. Navigating the plethora of information and products to choose from can be daunting for investors that would like to align their portfolios with the SDGs. This article can help.

As institutional investor demand for ESG products grows due to robust ESG performance and stakeholder pressure to address global challenges, banks and business schools alike should offer sustainable investing training to meet the demand for financial professionals who understand sustainability.