The following is a synopsis of one of the presentations at Eagle Alpha’s ESG roundtable on 20th August 2020.
The following is a synopsis of one of the presentations at Eagle Alpha’s ESG roundtable on 20th August 2020.
The following is a synopsis of one of the presentations at Eagle Alpha’s ESG roundtable on 20th August 2020. Derryck Coleman, Director of Research Analytics at Audit Analytics discussed the consequences of the WireCard collapse.
Riyaz Nakhooda, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Accern, discussed how Artificial Intelligence can be applied to ethically driven investing.
The following is a synopsis of one of the presentations at Eagle Alpha’s ESG roundtable on 20th August 2020. The accompanying deck can be found on the right.
Managers need to build out the capabilities, personnel and legal departments to address the ESG market. But funds should do it anyway as there is alpha potential in ESG investing. ESG outperforms so why not do it. Put the effort in it will pay off in performance and alpha.
Stephen discussed the creation of a separate mutual ecosystem and how signals, creating actionable intelligence can be used for the benefit of the data owners and the related set of needs within a system.
We discussed the corporate announcements from BP, Amazon and Microsoft on their de-carbonization strategies and changes in corporate strategy as a new trend.
The panel discussed the relationship between ESG scoring and credit spreads and the relationship seen in Hermes research.
Richard Excell, ex UBS trading and hedge fund manager, discussed the criteria and conditions for a bubble. Looking at ESG indices there is inconsistency in performance which means benchmark selection is a major factor.
