Report from Asia: Ranking the ESG real estate universe

One of the most important themes in global real estate investing has been the focus on sustainability — or environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Although most managers have developed talking points about ESG factors, few have attempted to develop a quantitative methodology to assess and rank companies according to their ESG behavior. Our guest, Jana Sehnalova, CEO and CIO of La Francaise Forum Securities, talks about a new index to do exactly that for global real estate securities. (07/2018)