Alpha-Centric ESG Research

Kyle Rudden

I am an ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) analyst with an alpha-centric approach to ESG research. After all, ESG investing is, first and foremost, investing. "Alpha-centric" does not mean apathetic, however. Quite the contrary. I believe global sustainability – i.e., environmental stewardship, social equality, and economic prosperity – is imperative, and private-sector capital is its cornerstone. Private-sector capital still has fiduciary responsibilities. Profitability is necessary for sustained impact. The Triple Bottom Line. People, Planet, AND Profit.

More importantly, you. I value your investment in Smartkarma research, and commit to Insights worthy of your time and money. That means giving ASEAN ESG the attention it deserves, and with Insights that are substantive and differentiated; the intersection of material and under-covered. You can expect investigative research into emergent ESG issues; data-driven analyses of deals (pre-IPO ESG research, ESG-focused M&A consequence analyses, etc.); and trading-oriented ideas like ESG short selling and playing ESG index constituency changes.

I bring both ESG expertise and traditional investing experience, as well as some rather unique perspectives on ESG (a lesson in governance from Enron, anyone?). I spent the last decade exclusively on ESG, researching links to equity returns, credit ratings, cost of capital, and yield spreads. I also contributed to ESG reporting standards (SASB and GRI), and the MBA curriculum (Impact Investing) at the Kellogg School of Management. Previously, I was an Institutional Investor and Wall Street Journal All-Star sell-side analyst at J.P. Morgan.

Please, feel free to contact me about anything.

COP26: An Overview of Investment Themes and Catalysts Related to COP26 Conference

Xinyi Solar: One of the Key Beneficiaries to Phase Out Coal and Increase Renewables

COP26 – the United Nations' flagship international conference on climate change – takes place in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November. World leaders will be discussing critical climate issues, and collaborating on aggressive plans to avert catastrophic climate change.Three core agenda items – mitigating global warming, financing climate action, and developing a global carbon market and pricing scheme – are mission-critical in combating climate change. But they also have significant implications for global capital markets and investing.This Insight is the first of several addressing COP26 from an investing perspective. This provides an overview of the COP26 conference, its key nation state players, core objectives and outcomes, and why there is such as palpable now-or-never sense of urgency; more so than ever before.Upcoming Insights, for which this report serves as context, will dive deeper into country-specific climate action plans, as well as discuss various investment themes and trading ideas around the COP26 conference and climate change in general. The first of those Insights are imminent.

COP26 – the United Nations' flagship international conference on climate change – takes place in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November. World leaders will be discussing critical climate issues, and collaborating on aggressive plans to avert catastrophic climate change.Three core agenda items – mitigating global warming, financing climate action, and developing a global carbon market and pricing scheme – are mission-critical in combating climate change. But they also have significant implications for global capital markets and investing.This Insight is the first of several addressing COP26 from an investing perspective. This provides an overview of the COP26 conference, its key nation state players, core objectives and outcomes, and why there is such as palpable now-or-never sense of urgency; more so than ever before.Upcoming Insights, for which this report serves as context, will dive deeper into country-specific climate action plans, as well as discuss various investment themes and trading ideas around the COP26 conference and climate change in general. The first of those Insights are imminent.

COP26: U.N. Climate Conference to Address Mitigation, Financing, and Carbon Pricing

NatWest Group

COP26: U.N. Climate Conference to Address Mitigation, Financing, and Carbon Pricing