Perspectives
Stay up-to-date with the current investment and macroeconomic issues at ClearBridge Investments. We provide analyses of the themes and trends which lie at the heart of your investment challenges.
ClearBridge Investments 2024 Stewardship Report
ClearBridge Investments' annual stewardship report highlights how active ownership benefits from ESG integration and how company engagements and proxy voting create value and drive positive change.
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ClearBridge Investments 2023 Stewardship Report
A compendium of our recent best thinking on the impact of ESG integration and engagement, ClearBridge Investments' 2023 Stewardship Report is an index to topics that will dominate investment conversations in the months and years ahead.
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ESG in the Political Spotlight
Hyperbolic rhetoric has caused public confusion about the merits of ESG investing and whether it is an appropriate consideration for fiduciaries, with exclusion of investment products that consider ESG analysis in some states reducing the options retirement plans are able to offer employees.
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Global ESG Outlook: More Scrutiny on Sustainable Investments
Regulation, biodiversity and human and labor rights should remain a focus for sustainability-minded investors in 2023.
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An ESG Framework for Extractive Industries
In our latest white paper, we examine the key ESG considerations required for investing in minerals necessary for the energy transition. They offer a framework for engaging mining companies on ESG risks and outline some best practices ClearBridge has identified.
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Inflation Reduction Act Deepens the Decarbonisation Bench
The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act offers strong tailwinds for ClearBridge holdings in the renewable energy and electric vehicle supply chains, as well as companies helping the climate with solutions in buildings and energy efficiency.
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ClearBridge 2022 Stewardship Report
The annual report highlights salient engagements ClearBridge has had with management teams at both large cap and small cap portfolio companies on pressing sustainability issues and details how we are assessing sustainability risks and opportunities such as climate change and diversity, equity & inclusion across the firm.
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Acquiring a Taste for Climate-Friendly Food
Dimitry Dayen and Rob Buesing break down how agriculture is evolving to fight climate change through plant-based foods and other budding technologies.
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An Active Bet on Emissions Reductions in Energy Sector
The focus of the energy transition is on shifting the incredibly complex power supply curve from thermal-based sources of energy to renewable energy, while still allowing demand for energy to keep growing.
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Achieving ESG Goals with a Quality Approach to Value
An active approach to value investing enables a dual purpose of generating alpha and satisfying ESG objectives.
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The Path to Net Zero is Driving Infrastructure Returns
Watch Portfolio Manager Nick Langley and Head of Infrastructure Business Development Matt Bushby explain how Net Zero will impact infrastructure.
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Infrastructure and the Move Toward Net-Zero Emissions
In this ClearBridge perspective, Portfolio Manager Shane Hurst discusses how Infrastructure has a key role in the move toward decarbonisation and net-zero, with opportunities as well as challenges for different infrastructure sectors.
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