As environmental, social and governance, or ESG, factors have become more prominent in investing, there has been a growing need to evaluate companies and investments based on their ESG compliance.

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

John B. Quinn is the founder of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, the world's largest law firm devoted solely to business litigation. Consideration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

Picking an investment based on ESG standards can take time and effort. That’s because there is no singular ESG scoring system for all companies – each rating agency measures each company by its own ...

Though most sustainable funds are actively managed, the menu of passive sustainable funds has grown in number, size, and complexity over recent years. And so, too, has the due-diligence burden for ...

ESG ratings analyze a company's management of environmental, social, and governance risks. Investors can integrate ESG ratings with financial analysis to assess long-term risks and opportunities. High ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

At a high level, a factor is any characteristic of a stock — or any other group of assets — where we know exposure to that characteristic at the start of the analysis. Some of these characteristics ...

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest rating report from MSCI, the international index rating agency, the ESG rating of Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited (“Guotai Junan ...

SHANGHAI, Oct. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- WuXi Biologics (2269.HK), a leading global Contract Research, Development, and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO), announced it has received the esteemed AAA ESG ...

And they are not the only ESG analytics firm selling flimsy ESG ratings. These inconsistent ESG ratings prove the incoherence of the entire ESG model. Weighting ESG scores involves subjective matters ...