All Sovereign debt articles – Page 2
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Webinar
Tackling ESG factors in Canada’s provincial and municipal bonds
This webinar will explore how investors in Canadian provincial and municipal bonds can assess and incorporate ESG factors in their investment decisions.
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Podcast
Spotlight on human rights: addressing sovereign bondholders’ challenges
In this episode of the PRI podcast, Jasper Cox, Investment Practices Analyst at the PRI, speaks with Camilla Ogunbiyi, Senior Sovereign ESG Analyst at Nordea Asset Management, and James Lockhart Smith, Vice President for Markets at Verisk Maplecroft.
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Workshop summary
Bringing together sovereign debt investors and index providers
Investors in sovereign debt met with six index providers to discuss opportunities, and challenges, in creating ESG indexes for the asset class. This workshop summary includes ideas and insights from both groups.
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Blog post
What does international conflict mean for responsible investment?
By Nathan Fabian, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, PRI
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Webinar
Human rights in sovereign debt analysis
This webinar will explore how sovereign debt investors can incorporate human rights issues into their decision-making.
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Discussion paper
Human rights in sovereign debt: the role of investors
Investors in sovereign debt have less leverage on human rights issues than investors in equities or corporates. But they are not powerless. In this report, we outline three steps sovereign investors can take when considering human rights issues in their investment decisions and we propose a range of responses.
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Podcast
Integrating ESG factors in US municipal bonds
The PRI’s Jasper Cox discusses how environmental, social and governance issues affect the credit risk of US municipal bonds with PIMCO’s Emily Robare and Breckinridge Capital Advisors’ Andrew Teras.
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Webinar
US municipal bonds: addressing the data differences for ESG integration
Does the ESG data used by investors to assess US municipal and corporate bonds differ, and is there enough self-reported issuer data available? Which ESG risk area has the biggest data limitations, and what role could bondholder engagement play in enhancing data disclosure? Featuring a muni bond issuer, an investor ...
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Case study
Integrating macro ESG metrics into emerging market sovereign debt investing
Case study by Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC
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Webinar
Leveraging sovereigns’ role in building sustainable economies
During this session government, investor and credit rating agency representatives will discuss the financial implications of the structural changes required to create a low-carbon enabling environment, and how to scale up engagement to create public-private sector partnerships.
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Thought leadership
Broadening the outreach to investment consultants
Investment consultants are critical stakeholders in the investment chain, advising institutional asset owners on a range of issues, including the selection, appointment and monitoring of external managers. They can play a key role in supporting asset owners to develop responsible investment practices, and to assess their investment managers’ ESG incorporation ...
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Webinar
ESG Integration in the US Municipal Bond Market
This webinar will present the main findings from ESG Integration in Sub-Sovereign Debt: The US Municipal Bond Market, the first in a series of reports examining this unique and diverse market segment.
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Webinar
ESG factors and municipal bond yields
The PRI Academic Network Week was hosted across five days between 13-17 September 2021.
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News and press
Announcing the Advisory Group for the Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risk (ASCOR) Project
Aktia Bank, Amundi, Colchester Global Investors, Franklin Templeton, MFS Investment Management, Ninety One and Wells Fargo Asset Management join the ASCOR Project Advisory Committee representing over US $5 trillion SURA Asset Management, Latin America’s largest pension fund provider joins the ASCOR Project Steering Committee
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Discussion paper
ESG Integration in Sub-Sovereign Debt: The US Municipal Bond Market
Momentum is building for investors in US municipal bonds to incorporate environmental, social and governance factors systematically in their analysis and valuations, however they face multiple challenges.
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Podcast
Climate change in sovereign debt assessment
PRI’s Jasper Cox speaks with Joanna Woods from Franklin Templeton and Susan Burns from Global Footprint Network about how climate change affects sovereign bonds through both physical risk and transition risk, and how investors can measure this.
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News and press
The ASCOR Project: Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks
Asset owners, BT Pension Scheme and the Church of England Pensions Board, alongside the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AOA), the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (Ceres), the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) are, supported by Chronos ...
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PRI reporting analysis
The evolution of responsible investment: an analysis of advanced signatory practices
This report delves into which practices have shifted to become the norm, and which ones remain advanced, suggesting that they are more challenging to implement.
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