High-profile short sellers including Muddy Waters, J Capital Research and Quintessential Capital Management, discussed how the voluntary standard can be interwoven with established principles of activist shorting
In partnership with Allen & Overy, ISLA has written a white paper outlining its action plan to tackle five key challenges standing between the peaceful coexistence of securities lending and ESG
The ESG-focused not-for-profit has expanded its College of Advisors and is now accepting input from individuals from organisations that engage in securities lending directly, provided they sit outside the lending departments
"We have a responsibility to consider, understand and manage all the potential risks facing our investment holdings and one of the risk categories we look at is ESG," says the CEO of EISS Super
Your stock is on its way! PASLA/RMA panellists discuss the prospect of an Uber-style asset tracking app to allow beneficial owners to ensure any lent securities comply with their ESG principles
While not wanting to underplay the importance of our markets, securities lending has itself become the story, he writes. I would argue that this is not the right way to view the challenges we face at this time
The two FlexShare sustainable funds, which represent the asset managers first European ETFs, will not join their US counterparts in lending securities, for now
A leading international securities regulatory body is calling for a three-pronged approach to achieve globally consistent and reliable sustainable financing disclosure standards
HSBC Global Asset Management is relaunching its securities lending programme for 25 ETFs next month but will exclude seven sustainable equity funds, representing a combined 瞿285 million AUM, on ESG grounds