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Finance Wakes Up: But Are ESG Funds the Answer?
Mar 11, 2021
Financial analysts across the globe are slowly waking up to the noisy environmental elephant in the room: climate catastrophe. Investments focused on environmental, social and governance – i.e. ESG funds, have emerged as a knee jerk reaction to the failures of conventional finance. They have also become even more attractive to investors during the worldwide pandemic.
Corporate shareholders, now more than ever, view ESG challenges as a profit-making opportunity. ESG funds, commonly touted as ‘sustainable’ investing, now represent more than
one-third of all professionally managed assets in the United States.