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The coronavirus is destroying American lives and livelihoods. Covid-19 is now the leading cause of death in the US, and over 22 million Americans have filed unemployment claims. How can companies and investors stay focused on the well-being of their employees during the pandemic and its aftermath?

With friends and loved ones sick, frightening reports from hospitals, and job losses, we could all use some good news about how investors and businesses can help and are helping with the coronavirus response. A New York-based investor group is leading a $4.7 trillion investor coalition to help.

Concerned about portfolio volatility as the pandemic spikes? Materiality—focusing on sustainability issues that drive stakeholder decision-making—varies across industries, asset classes, and economic cycles. Read what matters for bonds and public equities and during booms, busts, and pandemics

As part of the effort to research long-term value creation across the investment value chain, FCLTGlobal has reached a significant and surprising finding about the relationships among revenue growth, board gender diversity, and a company’s long-term success.

2020 has been busy for North American sustainability-linked loans with many firsts. The momentum is noteworthy because sustainability-linked debt—which links the borrower’s achievement of predetermined sustainability performance targets to the financing rate—has the potential to scale sustainability

The European Commission released the European Green Deal in December 2019 with the goal of making Europe climate neutral by 2050 and the European Green Deal’s Investment Plan two weeks ago. This article explores the objectives, financing, stumbling blocks, and building blocks of the plan.

Investors have joined grassroots activists to address the toll that mass incarceration takes: human suffering and 6% of US GDP. Sustainable investor solutions range from focusing solely on private prison operators to considering the entire prison-industrial complex and from divesting to engaging.

As investor demand drives growing sustainable and impact investing AUM, countless efforts are underway to prevent “green washing” and “impact washing.” A fledgling—but important—one is sustainability and impact assurance. This article highlights three trailblazers: Vornado, Etsy, and LeapFrog.

Any toddler can tell you that sharing is caring, but it took a New York hedge fund and a French bank to complete a $3.4bn impact investing synthetic credit risk transfer transaction–the first with a private investor to include a pricing incentive based on the redeployment of capital.

Italy has been the source of countless inventions, from the first bank to the first pizzeria. More recently, Enel, an Italian energy company, broke new ground in sustainable finance last month when its Dutch subsidiary Enel Finance International NV issued the world’s first SDG-linked bond.