In today’s briefing:
- 2022 UNGC Ten Principle Compliance Report on Korean Listed Companies
- Investment Managers Should Seek Ways to Reflect ESG Investing in Their Investment Performance
2022 UNGC Ten Principle Compliance Report on Korean Listed Companies
- Major index providers and investment management companies reflect on United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) principles for the assessment of portfolios. This particular UNGC compliance analysis focuses on Korean listed companies.
- The evaluation of Korea’s 828 listed companies and their sustainable management level utilised Who’s Good’s ESG evaluating framework, ‘Performance Analysis’ and ‘Incident Analysis’ and applied it to the Ten Principles.
- Only 10% of the 828 listed companies were members of the UNGC, and 50% of the top 100 companies who scored the highest in UNGC scores, were members of UNGC.
Investment Managers Should Seek Ways to Reflect ESG Investing in Their Investment Performance
- The lackluster ESG investing trust performance is the main reason for the sharp decline in new setups, as retail investors tend to trade short term.
- The fact that Japanese companies aren’t leading the world in green practices and are reluctant to disclose their activities are the factors that prevent wash from occurring and being detected.
- While it’s difficult to evaluate ESG investing in short-term-performance, it’s important to pay attention to how management is taking measures to increase corporate value in ESG perspective in particular G.
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