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Corporate Knights

corporate knights logo CorporateKnights.com - an award-winning business and society magazine, and a research division which produces corporate rankings, research reports and financial product ratings based on corporate sustainability performance. Its best-known rankings include the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada and the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations. @CorporateKnight


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Should universities abruptly divest from fossil fuel industry stocks?

March 4, 2020 By CorporateKnights

The increasingly charged and polarized politics surrounding the climate crisis have asset managers between a rock and a hard place when considering their investment strategy. Should they abruptly divest from stocks of fossil fuel industries? Should they progressively withdraw? Complete divestment from carbon-intensive industries has become a popular strategy internationally, and institutional funds—including, most recently, […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

The ultimate guide to responsible investing

February 26, 2020 By CorporateKnights

When it comes to investing for most people, the goal is to make money, not save the world. Nevertheless, sustainable or responsible investing (whichever term you prefer) has hit the big-time, particularly around the theme of climate change. Michael Baldinger, head of impact investing at UBS wealth management, which manages more than US$4 trillion in […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

As SEC curtails shareholder activism, big institutional investors must act

February 24, 2020 By CorporateKnights

The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission is trying to change the rules that govern shareholder proposals and sustainable finance luminaries are pushing back. In November, the independent federal government agency whose stated mission is to “protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation” announced that it would be toughening the rules surrounding […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

‘Cheaper than plywood’ solar, bargain EVs and youth rising round out 2019

January 6, 2020 By CorporateKnights

As the curtain closes on 2019, we take a look back at which stories resonated the most with readers in a year when we joined forces with hundreds of other news outlets around the planet to ramp up media coverage of the climate crisis. As always, Corporate Knights is committed to drawing  sustainable solutions into […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Canada’s second largest pension fund gets deadly serious about climate crisis

December 17, 2019 By CorporateKnights

As world leaders converge at this week’s climate summit in Madrid to debate how best to shift to a net zero-economy, Michael Sabia is leaving the helm of Canada’s second-largest pension plan having firmly placed Quebec’s retirement savings at the forefront of the global movement for low-carbon investing. Sabia, who recently announced he’s stepping down […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Which of these mining companies will survive the transition away from coal?

November 22, 2019 By CorporateKnights

Coal mines are in trouble. Investors continue to flee the sector, while once-giant companies like Murray Energy are declaring bankruptcy. With the coal mining sector on the ropes, now is a great time to pit two of the largest companies — Glencore and BHP Group — against each other to see who is leading the […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Business schools up the grade on sustainability

November 15, 2019 By CorporateKnights

There have been some promising signs of progress in business education of late. Special issues of top-tier academic journals are being devoted to sustainability and the climate crisis. New core and elective business-school courses are exploring United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. More scholars interested in sustainability are being hired. Much heavy lifting remains, […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Is it time for Canadian pension, Walmart to unload gun makers?

September 10, 2019 By CorporateKnights

My heart sank when I saw the news of the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Even more depressing was the knowledge that these mass shootings have been an almost daily occurrence in the U.S. this year. Public response has become almost predictable. First come the obligatory “thoughts and prayers,” followed […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Tim Nash’s Sustainable Stock Showdown: Amazon vs. eBay

August 13, 2019 By CorporateKnights

Even with all the buzz around Amazon Prime Day’s discount blitz earlier this month, I didn’t join the legions shopping online. It was hard to click “proceed to checkout” while workers and employees protested in Germany, the U.K., and the U.S. A petition with 270,000 signatures was delivered to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos calling for […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Fund face-off: Are your investments LGBTQ-friendly?

July 9, 2019 By CorporateKnights

Pride Month may be coming to a close, but investors can keep the spirit alive year round by considering the impact of their investments on LGBTQ+ issues. Consumers vote with their dollars,’ and so can investors. Instead of looking at individual company stocks this week, we’re comparing two exchange-traded funds (ETFs). ETFs are like mutual […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Tim Nash’s sustainable stock showdown: Pepsi vs. Coke plastic challenge

June 27, 2019 By CorporateKnights

The massive amount of plastic waste in our water systems is becoming impossible to ignore. We know about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, we’ve seen the large amounts of plastic being found in whales that wash up on shore, and we’ve heard about the latest study from WWF showing that the average person ingests a […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

2019 Best 50 results

June 10, 2019 By CorporateKnights

Every year, Corporate Knights ranks Canadian companies with an annual revenue of over $1 billion on up to 21 indicators. Below is the Best 50 summary chart for 2019, including the clean revenue result for each company, which is percentile-ranked against industry peers and weighted at 50% toward the overall score.   For complete scores, […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Tim Nash’s sustainable stock showdown: Uber vs. Lyft

May 20, 2019 By CorporateKnights

Not owning a car is one of the best financial decisions I’ve ever made. Car payments, insurance, parking, repairs, etc. would add about a thousand dollars to my monthly budget. I’m fortunate to live in a big city, so it’s way easier for me to bike, take transit, and use ride-hailing apps like Uber and […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Investing in reconciliation: the role for institutional investors

May 14, 2019 By CorporateKnights

The Indigenous economy is a force to be reckoned with – and investors are beginning to wake up to this fact. On February 21st in Ottawa, SHARE (a leader in responsible investment services, research and education) and the National Aboriginal Trust Officers Association (NATOA) co-hosted the first ‘Reconciliation and the Indigenous Economy: The Role for […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Money Talks: A Q&A with Bill McKibben on investing in “nothing that burns”

May 13, 2019 By CorporateKnights

It’s been a busy spring for the divestment movement and everyone working to get big money out of fossil fuels. This week, New York State held public hearings debating the issue of divesting the New York State Common Retirement Fund from oil, coal and gas. Last week, Denver announced that its US$5.3 billion portfolio had […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Bogle the mind

April 30, 2019 By CorporateKnights

This past January, John Bogle, the investing legend and “money manager for the people,” passed away after 89 fruitful years. Over the course of his life, he saved investors billions by offering low-cost no-nonsense index funds for the masses via Vanguard, the company he founded as an investor-owned co-operative that now manages over US$5 trillion. […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Church of England prods coal goliath to pursue more saintly endeavours

April 2, 2019 By CorporateKnights

As [miners] tunnel through the rocks, They discover precious stones… But where can wisdom be found? —Job 28. (Good News Translation) The grimy world of coal production brightened briefly in February, when Swiss mining giant Glencore announced it would cap its global production of thermal and coking coal at its current capacity of 150 million […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Tim Nash’s sustainable stock showdown: Boeing vs. Siemens

March 27, 2019 By CorporateKnights

The whole world has been talking about Boeing ever since a second 757 Max 8 plane crashed in Ethiopia on March 10th leading to the tragic death of all 157 passengers and crew. The first crash killed 189 people in Indonesia last October. Since both crashes occurred in a suspiciously similar manner, governments around the […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Is your ethical investing app upselling greenwash?

March 20, 2019 By CorporateKnights

Gone are the days when penny pinchers walked into their local banks and signed onto whatever investments their financial advisors recommended. A deluge of young investors is shaking up the investment community, demanding that their hard-earned savings do more than just tick upwards until they retire in Florida. And since, let’s face it, few of […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Tim Nash’s sustainable stock showdown: SNC vs. WSP

March 12, 2019 By CorporateKnights

Have you caught any Canadian news lately? If so, you’d know the Montreal-based engineering firm, SNC-Lavalin, is at the centre of a major controversy in Canadian politics right now. We won’t rehash all the gory political details, but suffice it to say, the scandal hasn’t helped SNC’s investors. The stock has taken a nosedive as […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Ethical investing need not penalize struggling economies

March 5, 2019 By CorporateKnights

As awareness dawns of the increasing risks of climate change, business and government have developed new tools and mechanisms to promote pro-social and environmentally friendly investment. But one U.K. analyst is pointing out that such high standards could backfire by restricting capital to many developing nations that need it most. Charles Robertson is the London-based […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

The 2019 eco-fund ranking

February 26, 2019 By CorporateKnights

Although 2018 was a tough year for stock markets around the world, it marked a turning point for responsible investment in Canada. According to the 2018 Canadian Responsible Investment Trends Report, more than $2 trillion in Canadian assets (just over half of all investments) now use one or more responsible investment strategies. Big investors like […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

O holy funds

February 19, 2019 By CorporateKnights

His Holiness Pope Francis Faithful followers: 1.2 billion Catholics Fund management body: Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), commonly known as the Vatican Bank Mandate: To serve the global mission of the Catholic Church through the administration of the entrusted assets and providing payment services to the Holy See and related entities. The celebration […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Is God an ethical investor?

February 12, 2019 By CorporateKnights

Organized, and even disorganized, religion oversees large amounts of assets. From the centuries of wealth accumulated by the Roman Catholic Church, to the Church of Scientology’s operating as a lucrative business that pays its recruiters from new-member revenues, churches are rich. This leads inevitably to the question of whether, as investors, it is possible to […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Global 100 eyebrow raisers

February 4, 2019 By CorporateKnights

  With additional reporting by Toby A. A. Heaps Over nearly a decade and a half of writing a weekly column and several books under the Ecoholic banner, I ranked endless streams of products from worst to best in terms of planetary impact, from beer companies to banks, footwear to ethical funds. Many weeks, judging […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Meet 2018’s Top 30 Under 30 in Sustainability

November 12, 2018 By CorporateKnights

“Our supply of ingenuity … involves both the generation of good ideas and their implementation within society,” Canadian scholar Thomas Homer-Dixon wrote in his 2000 book The Ingenuity Gap. “It’s not enough for a scientist, community, or society simply to think up an idea to solve an environmental problem; the idea must also be put […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

Looking Past the Labels

July 17, 2018 By CorporateKnights

People putting their money into environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments might be in for disappointment, Greenchip Financial’s John Cook said. ESG funds, which select companies for their broader environmental and social impact on top of performance, include a lot of big names whose business has little to do with reducing pollution, Greenchip president Cook […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

2018 Better World Fund Ranking

January 19, 2018 By CorporateKnights

Illustration by Benoit Tardif While the sea ice is melting in the Arctic at the fastest pace in 1,500 years and the California forests are burning at a rate greater than at any time in recorded history, the silver lining peeking through is that the world’s most important investors are no longer missing in action […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Failure to launch

January 18, 2018 By CorporateKnights

Illustration by Benoit Tardif When the Asset Owners Disclosure Project released its 2017 Global Climate Index last April, it came as no surprise that Canadian pension funds continued to lag behind their peers in addressing climate risks. No fund earned the designation of “Leader,” and nearly one quarter of the country’s largest asset owners were […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Bank statement

October 13, 2017 By CorporateKnights

Timothy Lane, deputy governor of Bank of Canada, speaks during the Finance Sustainability Initiative conference in Montréal, Quebec, on March 2, 2017. Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images This past March, the Bank of Canada had its coming out party on the topic of climate change in the form of a speech at the Finance […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing, Beyond Investing

Sustainable Stock Exchange report released

September 27, 2017 By CorporateKnights

(Toronto, September 27, 2017) The world’s largest companies are under-reporting sustainability policies and performance, hampering investors’ access to data that will allow them to play a full role in the transition to a low-carbon economy, according to a new report released today. The study, Measuring Sustainability Disclosure: Ranking the World’s Stock Exchanges 2017, finds that of […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

The people’s pension power

June 5, 2017 By CorporateKnights

Illustration by Jack D. Unless you are swinging and missing at home plate, good things often come in threes. So when I had three random interactions all pointing in the same direction, I decided to take a closer look. It led me down a path to a $2 trillion pot of gold. The first interaction […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

A different kind of board

March 30, 2017 By CorporateKnights

Illustration by Sam Island In recent years, corporate governance mavens have focused a great deal of attention on board composition. In particular, diversity has become the shibboleth of good corporate governance, with an assumption that improved oversight and better decision-making will flow from a more diverse board. Although gender has been the key dimension for […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Celebrating corporate sustainability leadership

January 17, 2017 By CorporateKnights

A sombre mood descended on the COP22 climate change conference in Marrakech in mid-November, as the prospect of a hostile Trump administration began to dawn on attendees. But within the week, over 360 companies and investors made clear the position of the U.S. business community with a joint letter to the U.S. president-elect, members of […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Canadian investor profiles

January 11, 2017 By CorporateKnights

Canadians who want to invest in environmental solutions and clean technologies (cleantech) – the sector of companies that minimizes the impacts of non-renewable resource use – have several options. Some of these are available to retail investors wary of choosing individual stocks or volatile passive funds characterized by hype and cynicism. Retail investors can, for […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Funding the future

December 20, 2016 By CorporateKnights

A new piece of legislation passed by a large majority in the European Parliament will require workplace pension funds to weigh and disclose the environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks of their investments. An updated version of the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) Directive mandates that all workplace pensions consider ESG factors when making […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

The millennial is the message

October 12, 2016 By CorporateKnights

Illustration by Meaghan Way Millennials may be forgiven for not knowing Marshall McLuhan. But for insight as to why millennials invest the way they do, look no further than his extensive Wikipedia page. In fact, visiting any Wiki page would provide insight into McLuhan’s famous phrase, “the medium is the message,” meaning society is shaped […]

Filed Under: -Impact Investing, Beyond Investing

2016 Sustainable Stock Exchange report released

July 20, 2016 By CorporateKnights

The world’s largest companies are under-reporting sustainability policies and performance, hampering investors’ access to data that will allow them to play a full role in the transition to a low-carbon economy, according to a new report released today. The study, Measuring sustainability Disclosure: Ranking the World’s Stock Exchanges 2016, finds that of 4469 large companies […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Mind the gap

June 10, 2016 By CorporateKnights

Enbridge tank farm, Cushing OK Kermit the Frog famously said it’s not easy being green. Today, it might be easier being green than being a CEO in the oil business. Fifty-two oil companies have already filed for bankruptcy this year, and over one-third of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies could end up bankrupt […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Filing deadline

March 31, 2016 By CorporateKnights

Illustration by Adam De Souza The last several years have seen a parade of increasingly cringe-worthy explanations from various multinational corporations seeking to justify their complicated tax avoidance schemes. When pressed about Apple’s sophisticated offshore tax avoidance regime on CBS’s 60 Minutes last December, CEO Tim Cook dismissed the accusations as “total political crap. There […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Introducing our 2016 Eco-Fund Ratings

January 18, 2016 By CorporateKnights

When Corporate Knights published its first Responsible Investing Guide in 2003, socially responsible mutual funds comprised  1 per cent of the Canadian retail fund market by assets. In the past dozen years, many things have changed – particularly with respect to climate change, now widely acknowledged as a seminal challenge of our time. Governments have […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Diversity is strength

November 27, 2015 By CorporateKnights

A recent event hosted by the BC chapter of Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) featured a panel of mining sector experts who addressed questions on how trends – such as mandated diversity, investor activism and increased regulatory oversight – are likely to impact corporate boards. The panel also touched upon best practices in director recruitment, […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Want a more sustainable world? Let women lead the way.

November 18, 2015 By CorporateKnights

Originally published on Ensia. Women are increasingly driving the global economy. According to a 2009 Harvard Business Review article, women controlled $20 trillion in consumer spending each year. Morgan Stanley reports that women control $11.2 trillion of the United States’ investable assets, too — assets held in one’s bank account, stocks, bonds and certificates of […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

Divestment moves investors off climate sidelines

May 20, 2015 By CorporateKnights

Shortly before Nelson Mandela passed away I had a chance to ask F.W. de Klerk what impact the anti-apartheid divestment campaign had on his decision to end apartheid. He said it had no impact at all, and then went on for 15 minutes explaining all the ways it had no impact, which made me wonder. […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing Tagged With: Divestment

Heroes & zeros: Archer Daniels Midland and Walmart

May 8, 2015 By CorporateKnights

Hero: Archer Daniels Midland Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), one of the world’s largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, has committed to a “no-deforestation” policy in regards to the soy and palm oil it sources. ADM will give its suppliers until the end of 2015 to ensure that neither crop is grown in peatlands […]

Filed Under: -Sustainable-Responsible Investing

The A-List of B Corps

April 16, 2015 By CorporateKnights

Posted April 16, 2015 B Lab highlights the companies that score in the top 10 per cent of all Certified B Corps. Capitalism can do better. Business can be more responsible. Short-term profit doesn’t have to be the singular focus of private enterprise. This is what Corporate Knights believes. The long term matters, in our […]

Filed Under: Beyond Investing Tagged With: Bcorp, RSF, Sponsor

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