Money Management Institute Sustainable Investing Community
November 08, 2018
A suite of educational resources for engaging clients on sustainable investing

Environmental, Social, and Governance Assessment and Engagement in Emerging Markets Debt

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors can be particularly important to credit quality in emerging markets (EM) fixed income. This especially applies to quasi-sovereign issuers that are exposed to both sovereign and corporate risks. In this example, our proprietary assessment of ESG risks at a quasi-sovereign company allowed us to both avoid an initial governance scandal and then opportunistically take advantage of the mispricing of the associated risk.

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