{"id":12323,"date":"2020-08-19T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T07:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/?p=12323"},"modified":"2020-08-31T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T07:29:38","slug":"sustainable-and-environmentally-friendly-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/press-review\/sustainable-and-environmentally-friendly-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian banks fast embracing sustainable and environmentally friendly investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Stefano Loconte<\/p>\n<p>Read the contribution of our founder Stefano Loconte, published in\u00a0<b>Islamic Finance\u00a0<i>news\u00a0<\/i>Volume 17 Issue 33 dated the 19th August 2020<\/b>, about the new sustainable and environmentally friendly investments (ESG) Italian Baks are rapidly embracing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors<\/strong> are rapidly arising in investors\u2019 awareness worldwide and expected to grow in the Islamic finance industry due to a strong link between the two.<\/p>\n<p>Such sustainable notions also exist in <strong>Islamic finance<\/strong> and the size is reportedly substantial. For example, Waqf, which is a donation of an asset or cash for religious or charitable purposes with no intention of reclaim, is construed as a type of socially responsible financing. Therefore, it is possible to imagine the thin alignment between the Islamic finance industry and these sustainable factors<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability, equality and a clean environmental record are the essential factors of financial performance and savvy investors are starting to embrace them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In such a scenario, sustainable investment funds are confirming their efficiency in managing underlying risks and delivering more resilient returns because they support and finance companies that are preserving the wellbeing of the planet and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Issue at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamicfinancenews.com\/italian-banks-fast-embracing-sustainable-and-environmentally-friendly-investments.html?access-key=acb6ae8893c33e5d6e4137df1af36760\">\u00a0link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>or download the PDF version here (<a href=\"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/v17i33-20.pdf\">Download<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stefano Loconte Read the contribution of our founder Stefano Loconte, published in\u00a0Islamic Finance\u00a0news\u00a0Volume 17 Issue 33 dated the 19th August 2020, about the new sustainable and environmentally friendly investments (ESG) Italian Baks are rapidly embracing. \u201cEnvironmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are rapidly arising in investors\u2019 awareness worldwide and expected to grow in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[4248,4247,4211,4042,4249,4250,4251],"class_list":["post-12323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-review","tag-environmental","tag-esg","tag-ifn-en","tag-islamic-finance-en","tag-social-and-governance-esg-factors","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainable-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12326,"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12323\/revisions\/12326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loconteandpartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}