Active stewardship is becoming an increasingly important aspect for asset managers and forms a key element of Truffle Asset Management’s approach to responsible investing. An important theme informing our current ESG research and engagement activity is the evolution of regulation relating to environmental protection.
Truffle has created a glossary of key terms that are now common language in the environmental space and important policies that are turning up the heat on the management of climate change worldwide.
According to the Emergency Event Database, in 2022, there were 387 natural hazards and disasters worldwide.
ChatGPT was asked by Quantdare whether ESG is important when building a portfolio. Its response was fairly similar to Truffle’s own thinking around it.