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ESG: As COP27 highlights climate urgency, notions of “sustainability” fracture
COP27, the UN’s annual climate change conference held this year in Egypt from 6 to 18 November with about 100 heads of state in attendance, can be seen as a microcosm of the challenges and debates that have plagued the concept of “ESG” or “sustainability” since those terms came into vogue several years ago.
ESG Strategy: Think Regulation, Data, and Budget
Sustainable investing disclosures in the U.S. are currently governed by general fraud prohibitions in advertising and not by formally defined rules, apart from interpretive guidance issued by the SEC in 2010 about certain material impacts caused by climate change.
Navigating the SEC Marketing Rule: Keyways to Compliance
The SEC’s new Marketing Rule that came into effect last year expanded the definition of advertising. It allows for marketing via new channels and enhances existing disclosure requirements. It will have significant compliance impacts on advertising and cash solicitations for investment advisers registered with the SEC.
Articles
Why firms are struggling to meet the looming deadline on the SEC Marketing Rule and how they can accelerate compliance
In a matter of weeks, investment advisers must comply with the SEC’s new Marketing Rule, a detailed, 430-page release centered around requirements to avoid untrue, unsubstantiated, or misleading statements, and to require fair and balanced presentation material.
ESG Disclosure Regulations: Creating Data-Driven, Future-Proof Reporting and Analysis
ESG investing is still evolving and will continue to do so for years to come. As part of that evolution, ESG frameworks are emerging to standardize the reporting and disclosure of ESG metrics across as many as 140 jurisdictions around the world, with the EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan (SFAP) leading the way.
Whitepaper: Preparing for PRIIPs KID: Key Considerations
Download our latest whitepaper to learn about key challenges of PRIIPs KID, best practices and end-to-end capabilities needed to meet the requirements.
Case Studies
Top-five global financial institution
Major global financial institution integrates Confluence’s composites solution for regulatory reporting and uniform performance measurement standards to increase scalability, speed, usability and functionality.
London-based wealth manager
Revolution empowers the performance team at a London-based wealth manager to build valuable, long-term relationships with 1000’s of clients through delivering more detailed reports.
National Australia Bank
Confluence’s cloud-based performance measurement and portfolio analytics solution, Confluence Revolution, facilitates National Australia Bank in reducing the turnaround time for delivering performance and risk analytics to stakeholders.
White Papers
ESG Sustainability Stress Testing
The integration of climate risk (or more generally sustainability risk) stress testing into long-term business strategy and governance is key, as it will incorporate sustainability assessments into the risk appetite framework of institutions.
Multi-Period Contribution Analysis
Download our latest whitepaper which demonstrates through worked examples how, why and where totals’ reconciliation differences can arise multi-period. Authored by Ian Thompson, PhD., Chief Performance Advisor, StatPro and Paul Giles, Owner, Teachins.
Market Liquidity Risk: A Scenario Based Approach
Dario Cintioli, Managing Director, explains the Confluence approach for measuring liquidity risk. The traditional problem of liquidity risk is that the data needed for calibrating these models is only available for liquid instruments, trading on a regular basis and for which books of bid/ask and volumes are available.