As the environmental, social and governance market grows within the municipal market, Moody’s Investors Service this week withdrew its Green Bond Assessment product for various corporate and muni ...

While hundreds of mutual funds are expected to lose their ESG designations under new EU rules, money continues to flow into these funds. The fund class is called Article 9, which is Europe’s top ...

Kroll Bond Rating Agency argues that environmental, social and governance scores based on subjective metrics that are not correlated to credit risk do not have a place in their credit ratings.

One of the world’s biggest managers of top-ranked ESG funds as defined under European rules is stripping the classification from roughly $14 billion of client savings. The investment arm of Banque ...

A mass wave of downgrades that shocked investors as they watched Europe's top ESG designation get stripped from almost $200 billion may now be reversed. Many of the reclassifications, which saw a ...

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has boomed in popularity over the past few years as clients seek to align their investments with their values and promote positive change in the ...

U.S. regulators have long said they’re dubious about the green and socially conscious labels that Wall Street applies to $35 trillion in so-called sustainable assets. Now, the watchdogs are hunting ...

MSCI’s pending downgrades to the ESG ratings on thousands of funds is the latest quirk highlighting the murkiness of sustainable investing — but they're also part of a global trend toward tighter ...

Earlier this week, the US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing sustainable investing practices across all asset classes, ...

It’s easy to talk the talk. Walking the walk is a different endeavor. And that’s consistently the case when it comes to the corporate adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles ...