ESG investors get their heads around social risks
Thanks to covid-19, these woolly risk factors are in the limelight
COVID-19 HAS brought out the best and the worst of the corporate world. Carmakers are producing ventilators, and consumer firms are making hand-cleaning gels. Some others, though, have drawn complaints for their treatment of their employees during the pandemic.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Social climbing”
Finance & economics
June 6th 2020- Can Hong Kong remain a global financial centre?
- America’s public-pension funding crisis worsens
- Americans saved a record chunk of their incomes in April
- ESG investors get their heads around social risks
- Is there a role for options insurance in equity portfolios?
- Downturns tend to reduce gender inequality. Not under covid-19
- Japan probes the limits of economic policy
From the June 6th 2020 edition
Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents
Explore the edition
Trump’s tariff turbulence is worse than anyone imagined
Even his concessions are less generous than expected
Why silver is the new gold
Safe-haven demand and solar panels have sent its price soaring
Trump’s new tariffs are his most extreme ever
America targets its three biggest trading partners: Canada, Mexico and China
El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure
Its curtailment is the price of an IMF bail-out. And one worth paying
America is at risk of a Trumpian economic slowdown
Protectionist threats and erratic policies are combining to hurt growth
India has undermined a popular myth about development
Extreme poverty in the country has dropped to negligible levels