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The truth about ESG and sustainable investment
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A collection of articles, reports and opinions from around the industry in support of ESG and sustainable investing
Republicans Wasted Their Summer Attacking DEI and ESG
The Republican “war on woke” has taken many forms, but perhaps none is more bizarre than t...
The Evolving Role of Chief Sustainability Officers
The role of the chief sustainability officer is undergoing a rapid and dramatic transformati...
US SIF’s new CEO talks ESG challenges, opportunities for advisors
Maria Lettini recently took the helm at US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Inve...
Some businesses say anti-ESG bills are anti-free market
Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! ICYMI, Rihanna wants the World Bank and the ...
Congressional Sustainable Investing Caucus
There are $8.4 trillion in U.S. assets under management in funds that prioritize environmenta...
The Anti-ESG Fad Might Be Over Before It Got Going
In the United States, criticism of sustainable investing has become incredibly politicized ove...
US SIF’s Lisa Woll: Attacks on ESG demonstrate the growing importance of sustainable investing
The old adage still serves: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they figh...
Sustainability Matters: What Consumers Are Saying, and How Business Should Respond
Environmental sustainability and social impact are of increasing interest to U.S. consumers ...
ESG Not Making Waves With American Public
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Efforts to promote adoption of the environmental, social and governance fr...
What Morningstar’s Jon Hale Learned About Sustainable Investing Over 40 Years
It was the presidential campaigns of 1968 and his family’s new color TV that ignited the you...
VIEWPOINT: The Problem with Restricting the Freedom to Invest: It Hurts Delawareans
Chances are, when it comes to investing your money, you consider quite a few factors when deci...
ESG's Impact on Returns 'Virtually Nonexistent'
Environmental, social and governance considerations have a “virtually nonexistent” impact ...
Gas, guns, and governments: Financial costs of anti-ESG policies
As interest from investors in funds with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies ...
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
The culture wars in the U.S. continue to rage, and they’ve come for business. Companies are ...
Love it or hate it, ESG has been around for decades — and it isn’t going away
Last year, investors pulled money out of U.S. mutual funds and ETFs, to the tune of $370 bill...
‘ESG investing is just investing.’ Erika Karp’s straight talk on ESG and a chat about SPACs.
‘There is no such thing as ESG investing … it’s an analytical tool,’ says Erika Karp, ...
Proxy Preview 2022
Proponents have filed 529 shareholder resolutions on environmental, social and related sustain...
Biden’s first veto spent on anti-market resolution
Congressional Republicans have launched a new battle against capitalism. Their latest expressi...
Politicians Make Poor Asset Managers
Not that long ago, state legislators of various stripes told their state pension systems they ...
Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”
A few months ago, Leonard Leo laid out his next audacious project. Ever since the longtime Fed...
On Wall St., ‘Socially Responsible’ Is Common Sense. In Congress, It’s Political.
A deeply rooted approach to investing and social action is taking its lumps. Often known as E....
Republicans Ought to Be All for ESG
Investing in a free-market economy involves choice. There are 8,000 securities listed on U.S. ...
GOP lawmakers vilify ESG moves at BlackRock, Vanguard but take their money nonetheless
Republican lawmakers who railed against “woke capitalism” in the 2022 midterm elections ...
What the future holds for sustainable investing, according to longtime US SIF CEO
After more than 16 years leading the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, CEO ...
Why It’s So Hard to Be an ESG Investor
Supporting societal change through investing is one of the most popular themes in the financia...
‘Woke capitalism’ is simply capitalism — and it’s good for business
The backlash against so-called “woke capitalism” is fundamentally anti-capitalist. Compani...
Politicians Want to Keep Money Out of E.S.G. Funds. Could It Backfire?
The fight between red states and BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has been a ga...
Update on ESG, Stakeholder Governance, and Corporate Purpose
As we previously described (most recently here and here), environmental, social, and govern...
Study: 93 per cent of investors now consider sustainability in real asset investment decisions
More than 90 per cent of global institutional investors actively consider ESG and sustainabili...
Climate investing is ‘a matter of value, not values,’ says State Street’s O’Hanley
That’s Ron O’Hanley, head of State Street, which is among the world’s largest stock inde...
Bank of America CEO Says ESG Movement Is Here to Stay
ESG is here to stay. That was the message of Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan as...
Does Good Governance Mean Better Returns?
Performance is often cited as part of the win-win with environmental, social and governance (E...
ESG is about quality not quantity
We have reached a moment of reflection after a period of exuberant expansion Following a decad...
Op-ed: Republican efforts to limit ESG investing are anti-capitalist
There is a cohort of elected officials in the United States presently engaged in an anti-capit...
ESG Investing Keeps Pace With Conventional Investing in 2022
Sustainable investing generated returns similar to those of the overall market in 2022. The br...
ESG Investment Is Most Popular With Younger Generations
Legislation overhauling 401(k) rules that President Joe Biden is expected to sign soon will li...
How to invest to make money and change the world
Politicians in Congress and state legislatures have recently attacked sustainable investing, c...
US SIF Trends Report
The US SIF Foundation released the 14th edition of the Report on US Sustainable Investing Tre...
The secret money fueling the conservative anti-ESG push
When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans for the state to fight “woke CEOs” last...
‘Ideological attacks on ESG investing defy the free market
Environmental, social, and governance—or ESG—investing is the latest target of Republicans...
ESG Investing Is Consistent With Fiduciary Duty
No matter your investment strategy, timely access to accurate and comprehensive information is...
10 Reasons Why ESG Won’t Be Stopped
It’s been a time of reckoning for environmental, social, and governance analysis and sustain...
CEOs focused on stakeholder capitalism take umbrage at ‘woke CEO’ label and say it’s just good business
Chief executives have enough to worry about running complex businesses in a challenging enviro...
Insider Q&A: The ESG industry on becoming a political target
NEW YORK (AP) — After breaking into the mainstream of the investment world, ESG investing ha...
Insider Q&A: The ESG industry on becoming a political target
NEW YORK (AP) — After breaking into the mainstream of the investment world, ESG investing ha...
Who’s Behind the Right’s Anti-ESG Campaign?
A New York Times article this week shed some light on who is behind the anti-ESG campaign co...
Investing for Your Values, but Betting on Growth
One of the pitches for socially conscious stock funds has been that their performance won’t ...
Ask a Scientist: What’s Up With the Attack on ESG Investing?
Officials at the state and federal level have launched a full-court press against what the fin...
Reflecting on the ESG Industry’s Strong Foundation and Bright Future
In light of my forthcoming retirement in December 2022, I am especially pleased to be included...
Cutting Through the Nonsense Around ESG
There is a lot of noise about ESG these days, and it’s coming from different directions. Mos...
Impax’s Gorte: Evaluating ESG when nothing is perfect
Sustainable investing could use a little less hypocrisy, Gorte says Julie Gorte, senior vice-p...
Trillium: Engaging and having uncomfortable conversations on diversity
Trillium Asset Management's Sada Geuss shares the firm's diversity initiatives and how these h...
Who Benefits From The Fight Against ESG?
Several state legislatures have recently begun punishing investment companies that take envi...
Who’s afraid of ESG?
When Elon Musk expressed outrage last Wednesday at Tesla being removed from the S&P 500 ES...
Commentary: New DOL rule should accelerate sustainable investment options in retirement plans
When Americans contribute to their 401(k) plans, they may not be thinking about potential issu...
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