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ESG Owl Analytics 2020

How has Socially-Responsible Investing Performed in 2020?

June 28, 2020

Over the past 3 weeks we’ve focused on the Social components of OWL Analytics’ ESG composite datasets, including an analysis of historical trends in “Human Rights” and “Employee Diversity & Rights” factors. We have been able to uncover some promising evidence that companies ranked high on social factors also exhibited stronger performance historically. As we had discussed in the...

Chris Martin

ESG Owl Analytics 2020

Investing in Employee Diversity and Rights

June 21, 2020

Last week we had focused on analyzing the ‘Human Rights’ factor and found that companies scoring high on this measure had performed well historically but also offered investors positive exposure to similarly important ESG factors, most notably 'Diversity & Rights'.

This week we shift our attention to this 'Diversity & Rights' factor using the potent ESG datasets from our partners at OWL...

Chris Martin

ESG Owl Analytics 2020

Investing in Human Rights

June 14, 2020

Last week, we reiterated our view that the investment community is uniquely positioned to effect positive change by deploying capital in companies that score well on Environmental, Social, and Governance factors. To that end, we walked through the framework of a high quality ESG dataset, courtesy of our partners at OWL Analytics (shown again below).Today, we’ll highlight how the ...

Omer Cedar

ESG Owl Analytics 2020

Impacting Change Through Socially Responsible Investing

June 07, 2020

This past week we have been both outraged and heart-broken watching protests against racial injustice unfold across the country. We at Omega Point stand in full solidarity with the black community to fight systemic racism. We pledge to do our part to listen and to learn more about how we can impact change using the resources and tools available to us within the investment management...

Omer Cedar

2019 ESG Owl Analytics

Dangling the ESG Carrot

October 06, 2019

Up until now, we have evaluated companies that have been “bad actors” when it comes to ESG. For this week’s Factor Spotlight, we’ll take a look at how the institutional investment community is forcing positive change in company behavior and influencing practices that align with growing shareholder interest in broadly recognized ESG principles. We will turn the tables on the outdated...

Julia Casals

2019 ESG Owl Analytics

An ESG Tale of Tree Smuggling, DNA Testing, & Poisonous Gases

September 29, 2019

During Climate Week in NYC, I had the opportunity to speak with many investment practitioners, including CIO’s, fundamental PM’s and analysts on how they are integrating ESG into their investment decision making process. I had a particularly fascinating conversation with Gabriel Thoumi, CFA, who works with two ESG related NGO think tanks in the financial markets space: Planet...

Julia Casals