11 December 2007
Carbon exposure of Asian listed companies and investors: study identifies opportunities to reduce risk.
19 November 2007
Trucost plc is delighted to announce the appointment of Peter de Graaf to its Board of Directors. Peter will lead Trucost's business development across both the investor and the corporate markets which will include the international expansion of Trucost into Continental Europe, the US and Asia.
26 October 2007
Virgin Money will launch the Virgin Climate Change Leaders Fund in January 2008. The Fund's advisor, GLG Partners LP ("GLG"), will only invest in companies with lighter than average environmental footprints in their sectors as well as companies who provide, manufacture or own solutions to environmental problems.
11 October 2007
Trucost has analysed environmental disclosure in the Environment Agency's second review of environmental reporting in the annual reports and accounts of FTSE All-Share companies.
10 October 2007
The 'Carbon Leaders' investment product, launched this week, enables investors to choose between otherwise successful companies on the basis of how environmental factors will affect their future business earnings. Starting with Merrill Lynch's rigorous business analysis, Trucost's proprietary modeling and its unique database of past corporate environmental performance is applied to pinpoint those successful global companies with a low exposure to future carbon pricing.
09 October 2007
This year Trucost has analysed climate change disclosures by FTSE 350 companies, on behalf of the Carbon Disclosure Project. Trucost has identified emerging reporting trends since companies responded to last year's questionnaire, and examined levels of quantified reporting on greenhouse gas emissions data.
01 October 2007
From October 1st 2007, the Companies Act 2006 requires companies to disclose material environmental impacts in Business Reviews using Key Performance Indicators.
30 July 2007
Lord (Jacob) Rothschild and Ben Goldsmith have today become significant minority shareholders in Trucost, the environmental research company that helps investors and companies understand the environmental impacts of business activities in financial terms.
16 July 2007
Carbon Counts 2007 provides valuable information to fund managers looking to control and measure the risks associated with carbon emissions in their portfolios, as well as individual investors seeking to get the most out of their investments while taking greater responsibility for the environment.
22 February 2007
Trucost is delighted to have won the Sustainable and Ethical Investment and Asset Management Category at the City of London Corporation's Sustainable City Awards 2006/7.
19 February 2007
GLG Partners have launched a long-only fund filtering the greenest companies from its $1.5bn European Equity Strategy. The fund uses Trucost data to find the companies in each sector with lighter environmental footprints.
19 February 2007
French sustainability research centre Novethic's most recent newsletter 'L'essentiel de l'ISR' examines Trucost - an environmental footprint specialist. It talks about the company as a global resource for investors wanting to integrate the environment into the investment process.
29 January 2007
The Carbon Disclosure Project's (CDP) Global Electric Utilities report, based on data from the 2006 CDP survey - the world's largest investor collaboration on climate change - found that only 112 of the 265 largest electric utilities actually responded to the request.
17 January 2007
We are pleased to announce a Trucost Online upgrade for 2007 following recent consultation with clients. Trucost Online provides access to company environmental performance data in financial terms for investors.