MSCI: Five Key ESG Trends to Watch in 2019

MSCI: Five Key ESG Trends to Watch in 2019

January 22, 2019

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MSCI ESG Research has issued its 2019 ESG Trends to Watch Report, which identifies five key ESG trends in 2019 and the potentially overlooked costs and opportunities underlying these themes:

MSCI ESG Research has issued its 2019 ESG Trends to Watch Report, which identifies five key ESG trends in 2019 and the potentially overlooked costs and opportunities underlying these themes:

China’s central role in triggering a global trade war in waste: MSCI expects to see a globalized world forced to look locally for solutions on how to deal with waste.

Regulating the business of ESG investing: MSCI expects that regulatory developments will escalate around ESG investments, rather than ESG disclosures, with 2019 being a year to play catch up, as measures governing investors’ roles and duties compel the development of investment policies that address ESG more holistically as an investment-relevant risk.

Investment allocations to consider climate risk: While private assets like real estate may be the tip of the spear that will inevitably be impacted by climate in the next decade, MSCI expects that eventually all assets may have to be judged by the potential impact of climate change.

ESG from big data to big signal: It will become increasingly important to know how to extract the most relevant signals from a proliferation of ever-bigger data to achieve better-differentiated investments objectives.

Leadership in the age of transparency: Amid the age of transparency and high-profile scandals, 2019 may mark a turning point for investors tired of paying the cost for companies slow to adapt when the internal becomes external and the whole world can judge misconduct for itself.

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