Preliminary Calendar for 2021
We would like to start 2021 by wishing you all the very best for the year ahead! This week we have put together a preliminary calendar for 2021. The list includes public holidays in key countries, stock market reporting deadlines, and other notable events, including Investment Bank conferences. 2021 January USA & MEXICO Friday, January 1, […]
Happy New Year! Plus our first in depth ESG report
Happy New Year! We wish you and your loved ones all the best for 2021. This week, we are happy to share with you our first in-depth ESG report on the Mexican equities market. In it, we use data we collected over the past few months on all the equities that trade on the BMV […]
Preliminary Calendar for 2021
We would like to start 2021 by wishing you all the very best for the year ahead! This week we have put together a preliminary calendar for 2021. The list includes public holidays in key countries, stock market reporting deadlines, and other notable events, including Investment Bank conferences. 2021 January USA & MEXICO Friday, January 1, […]
It’s a wrap! See you next year
This week, in our last blog of the year, we want to look back to the good side of 2020. We all know this has been a difficult year for many (if not all) around the world, and by no means do we want to minimize that. But it has also been a time where […]
ESG Integration in Mexican Private Equity (Survey Results)
This week we are sharing 10 key results from the survey we conducted in the PE industry to gauge the level of ESG integration in funds investing in the Mexican market. We collected responses from 29 funds in total, which together add up to near US$12 billion in AUMs. We understand there may be a […]
Leaders and Laggards in ESG Development in Mexico
This week we are sharing the leaders and laggards for ESG development by sector using the data we collected for our ESG Development Heatmaps. Before we get into it, a quick reminder on how we envisioned our ESG Development Heatmaps. Measuring and comparing ESG performance in companies in different industries (or even within the same industry but […]
Top 10 FAQs on launching an ESG strategy
This week we would like to summarize the Top 10 Most Frequent Questions we get from organizations considering launching a new ESG strategy. We do this hoping it will help more companies and investors understand a bit of the process we follow with our clients and demystify what actually implies formalizing an ESG initiative. We will […]
Industry-level conclusions from our ESG Development Heatmaps for Mexico
This week we are sharing some summary data using all the ESG Development Heatmaps we have produced over the past few months. A word of caution first: we are using a pretty simplistic approach to arrive to these numbers. We are basically counting the number of companies that comply with each item in our heatmap […]
Our notes from 3 talks in UN’s PRI Digital Forum
This week we attended the UN’s PRI Digital Forum, where many topics related to ESG were discussed. We wanted to share what we think are the highlights of three of the meetings we joined. SHAREHOLDER ENGAGEMENT IN THE US: POLICY UPDATE (POST-ELECTION) How do you think changes in US policy in ESG and active […]
Want to be an ESG investor in Mexico, on a budget?
We have been getting many questions from people who want to invest in ESG strategies “on a budget”. In other words, retail investors, who like the notion of ESG, but don’t really know where to start. Unsurprisingly, many of these potential ESG investors are Millennials, who are somewhat more prone to feel concerned about the […]