In his latest piece for Expansión, Antonio Madera, Chief Economist and Senior Director CRO SF at FIG & Sovereign, analyses the implications of Mario Draghi’s proposal for joint debt issuance to finance Europe’s competitiveness. The Draghi report stresses the need for Europe to improve its competitiveness so that its citizens [...]
Main take-aways from our report: 1) Small and medium sized companies are on the rise in sustainability performance, surely pushed by the EU’s efforts to make ESG reporting mandatory for an increasing number of companies. 2) Firms headquartered within the EU and from sectors with higher environmental impacts also tend [...]
El análisis de las prácticas y tendencias ESG en las gestoras de private equity requiere de una consideración particular habida cuenta que, por una parte, las gestoras se ven afectadas en gran medida por la regulación europea de finanzas sostenibles, pero, por otro lado, vienen condicionadas por algunos retos específicos [...]
EthiFinance has published the first edition of the «SRI study on the Spanish Private Equity market» presents the developments in the ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) maturity of Spanish Private Equity Asset Managers, highlighting new ESG trends in the market and identifying areas for improvement for Asset Managers. Four main [...]
As part of its research, EthiFinance Analytics has focused on assessing the probability of economic events based on macro-financial data. As a demonstration, Elizabeth Zuniga, David Labeurthre and Édouard Pineau applied their approach to assess the probability of economic slowdowns. To do this, the leading index is transformed into a [...]