Impact Insights by Asteria Obviam

How can we measure the biodiversity impact of a portfolio? Why is it challenging? Does it give actionable numbers?  What data should be available to enhance the current state-of-the-art methods? What is the role of the financial industry in this whole story about transition risk?

To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050, significant investment in sustainable and resilient infrastructure is required. How to choose the most impactful infrastructure project?

COP27, the conference of parties’ number 27 held in Sharm el Sheik, brought together more than 45,000 participants to share ideas, solutions, and build partnerships and coalitions around climate action. Natacha Guerdat, Head of Research at Asteria IM wraps up the main takeaways from this event.

In recent years, "blending" has become a common development finance term. There is some confusion about its meaning, how it works and how it fosters development.

Demand for Private Debt is growing among investors in 2022 but what is driving this trend?

The accelerating threat of climate change raises the urgency of commitment to climate transition, including the important role of global financial markets to align investment with net zero. Jon Duncan, CEO of Asteria explains Why finance and investment play a central role in the climate transition.

In this unusual episode of Impact Insights, we interview Jon Duncan, the new CEO of Asteria IM about his career and his thoughts about Building Bridges 2022.

Big data is already commonly used to create data-driven investment models. Such models typically evaluate public companies on fundamentally-based or economically-motivated investment themes and use company-specific data such as financial statements, returns, volumes, internet web traffic, patent filings and its content to guide investments. It is only natural that investing with impact in a data-driven environment is only possible using systematic impact data.

How do you get them? What is the most eco-friendly cryptocurrency?

When discussing the measurement of the environmental or social impact of a company, we often hear about impact scores. How are they actually calculated and what are they based on?

The decarbonisation of transport is a challenge; but it  is also an opportunity for industries and businesses to  develop and produce new products and services. What steps are needed to be taken to achieve a fully decarbonised transportation?

What does it mean "temperature of a portfolio"? What is the aim of the measurement of this temperature?

Greenhouse gas emissions are categorised into three groups or 'Scopes' by the most widely-used international accounting tool, the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. What is the difference between Scope 1, 2 and 3 Emissions?

Big data can be used to more accurately and comprehensively assess companies’ social and environmental impact.

Profit and purpose are no longer seen as mutually exclusive. Can we create impact through public equity investments as well as private markets? 

What are green bonds?  Who are the issuers? How do investors know what is really green?

Do ESG-focused products have a real environmental and/or social impact?

What covers and what is the aim of the Paris Agreement? 

While it is easier to measure the amount of energy generated by renewable energy plants, it is much harder to quantify how well a social project meets its objectives. What kind of metrics and methodologies are currently available? 

How to choose a reliable and transparent sustainable investment partner?

Do we need to sacrifice on performance in order to generate impact?

What is the link between SDGs and impact targets?  Examples for impact targets

How to set an impact target? Where do you collect data from? How to analyse collected data? Which impact indicators can be measured?

Where do we get data from? How do we analyse them and what is needed to be accurate and transparent?

A big trend in this last decade is impact investing. You may have heard about ESG, SRI and Sustainable investing as well. All these follow the same goal but what is actually the difference between these investment philosophies?

What is its exact definition? Who is it for? What are its main pillars? What is its basic goal?