Anubhuti Gupta, head of APAC, Rosenberg Equities at AXA IM discusses with Foo Boon Ping the company’s ESG strategy and framework as well as how it is leveraging…
Friday, 30 October 2020
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Oliver Plein, global head of investment specialists ESG at DWS discusses how sustainability related regulations and investor demand have driven ESG integration…
Will Ruddick and Caroline Dama, board directors at Grassroots Economics Foundation, discuss how community currencies are helping the poor to exchange goods…
Newly appointed ESG head for Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank explains to Foo Boon Ping and Chris Georgiou the importance of the region to the global sustainability…
Evaluating companies in a measurement system that emphasises the UN SDG targets leads to incoherent results, according to INNORBIS founder and CEO Angelica…
Beirut was hit by massive explosions on 4 August 2020 that wreaked widespread damage to the city and significant loss of lives. Our thoughts are with the…
Nandini Sukumar, CEO, The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), shares the results of its sixth annual sustainability survey that showed increased engagement…
In this first part of the Wealth and Society Dialogue Series, Andrew D. Ive, founder and general partner of Big Idea Ventures, discusses the growing appetite…
While sustainable funds remain on track to beat the records set in 2019, impact investors indicate they are unlikely to alter strategies amid the pandemic,…
With the impending launch of China’s national carbon emissions trading scheme, Zhu Weiqing, chairman of the board and CEO of Treasure Carbon believes now…
Unfamiliar risks, including transition, physical and liability, manifested over an uncertain timeframe, and involving no precedents make it increasingly…
Only 55% and 49% of surveyed Singapore and Hong Kong executives believe their companies do a good job in disclosing ESG metrics, according to a survey…
The financing of REDD+ projects through voluntary carbon markets introduces alternative economic incentives for local communities to change behaviour and…
With 85% of Asia’s billionaires still the founders of their family businesses, Asian families are on the cusp of the most significant transition of wealth…
Alibaba’s first-round investor Benson Tam launches new listable structure to raise capital for smart city development in China through strategic investments…
The founder of The Asian Banker, Emmanuel Daniel, outlined new criteria by which the banking industry will be assessed after the pandemic, including being…
It is largely accepted that gender diversity in business equates to good corporate governance – but for investors, it is fast becoming a corporate requirement.
China Construction Bank’s focus on the real economy through its ‘three major strategies’ of house rental, inclusive finance and fintech will support the…
G9 Ark aims to break the NGO-Donor model by providing a funding mechanism that fosters collaboration rather than competition among non-government organisations…
With China past the peak of COVID-19 infection, when and how will its economy recover? We invited top Chinese thought leaders to answer these timely and…
Amid the pandemic-inflicted downturn, the real value of firms is under the spotlight. Adrian de Groot Ruiz, executive director of Impact Institute, explains…
Wealth managers must acquire new capabilities to win in the “Smart Era” by collaborating with fintechs on broader use cases and application, by reinventing…
Tao Zhang, co-founder of Dao Ventures and founder of one of the first impact funds in China, discusses his latest clean food impact investment in Shenzhen…
Jay Wenjie Xiao, LexinFintech CEO, shares how he started the company, and how it leverages AI and big data to enable sustainable lending to China’s growing…