Lauren Juliff

Whitepaper on ESG in Passive Investments

Storebrand’s Climate and Sustainability Product Lead, Head of UK Institutional, Lauren Juliff, recently took part in a roundtable hosted by CAMRADATA on the topic of ESG in Passive Investments.

By  Storebrand Asset Management
ARTICLE · PUBLISHED 28.06.2024

Lauren shared some of the findings from her research with Senior Portfolio Manager and climate change specialist, Henrik Wold Nilsen, into the use of climate data in systematic portfolio construction.

She highlighted some of the problems that can occur with a ‘passive’ implementation of climate data and described why expert oversight is necessary in seeking portfolio Paris Alignment via exposure to ‘climate beta’.

Please refer to the attached whitepaper for a write up of the discussion which also involved Aon, Isio, REST Super, XPS Investment and Northern Trust.

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