Still too few women on Mexican boards
This week, to commemorate the International Women’s Day, I want to share an article I co-authored with Damian on gender equality in Mexican boards. Still too few women on Mexican boards Mexican boards remain unacceptably dominated by men, even if a few companies have made some decent progress over the past couple of years in […]
Who is CDP?
This week, I want to introduce another sustainability organization which is focused on Climate related topics: CDP (or the Carbon Disclosure Project). CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs a global environmental disclosure system. CDP supports thousands of investors, companies, cities, states, and regions to measure and manage their environmental impacts by identifying the risks and […]
Responsible Investing in Mexican AFOREs
This week, we attended a webinar on Responsible Investing organized by the AMAFORE (the association of Mexican pension funds, or AFOREs). There, a group of representatives of pension funds, regulators, corporates, and other organizations (like the UN’s PRI) participated in several panels discussing how is responsible investing evolving in the country, what are the main […]
Adding ESG to quarterly earnings reports
This week, as we are in the full swing of Mexico’s 4Q20 earnings season, I want to address a few questions we often get from publicly listed companies: how can I show my ESG initiatives in my quarterly earnings release? Do I need to produce quarterly ESG indicators? Should I bother with doing any of […]
Mandatory ESG reporting in Mexico? Not really, not yet
This week I want to discuss mandatory ESG disclosure. There have been debates globally on whether companies and investors should be forced by regulation to disclose ESG topics through integrated, sustainability, or stewardship reports. We are still far from having a global standard on this, but as more and more investors push for more and […]
The ABCs of TCFD
As over the past 10 days Larry Fink’s annual letter to CEOs has made many CEOs all over the world rethink their strategy around climate change (Blackrock’s Chairman and CEO last week argued for all corporations to eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, click here for Televisa’s latest announcement as an example), this week I want to […]
Mapping your contribution to SDGs
This week, we want to talk about how companies and investors can map their contributions to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). You’ve probably seen this mapping on integrated and ESG reports many times, and you will see it even more in the future now that the green bond market has opened up more […]
ESG reports vs Integrated reports
This week, as we get closer to kick starting annual reporting projects, we want to answer one question we get a lot. Is it better to publish an ESG report, or is it better to publish an integrated report? You may be thinking that deciding what ESG information to disclose is confusing enough, so what […]
ESG integration in Mexican PE funds
Following our report on the Mexican equities market, this week we are happy to share with you our first in-depth ESG report on the Mexican private equity universe. We believe ESG integration in private equity funds is as important as it is in public equity markets (if not more given the development stages of some companies […]
How to Improve Quarterly Reports for 2021
As we start off a year still impacted by COVID-19 but with an end in sight thanks to the development of effective vaccines, we give our take on what investors may want to see in your quarterly reports in 2021. Overall, investors want more not less detailed information, and more frequent updates on key developments. […]