A breakdown of the water-related policies of 25 asset managers assigned with the highest two ESG Commitment Level ratings to determine the role water plays in their active ownership approach.

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Middlesex Water Company MSEX recently announced that its unit Tidewater Utilities, Inc. (“TUI”) has acquired the water assets of the Town of Ocean View (“TOV”) in Sussex County, DE, for $4 ...

Asset managers are criticized on the left and right for owning too much public company stock. The bigger issue is their ownership of housing and infrastructure.

The Equity Theme Water segment of investment funds now stands at more than $28 billion in assets, according to data from Refinitiv Lipper, having grown from $16 billion at the end of 2019.

In the eyes of big capital, water is an “undervalued asset.” Matthew Diserio, WAM’s president, is frank about his ambition—though he speaks in the cloaked language of finance.

For instance, many investors in private assets — and in this case the water sector regulator, Ofwat, too — rely on the “capital asset pricing model” (CAPM) to estimate a cost of capital ...