Good corporate governance has been largely good for investors’ pockets during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the first year of the pandemic, large funds with environmental, social, and governance criteria outperformed the broader market, according to a report published this week by S&P Global. It’s the latest of such analyses to suggest that ESG risks matter for investment performance, at least during a pandemic. S&P’s analysis included 26 ESG exchange-traded funds and mutual funds with more than $250 million in assets under management. From March 5, 2020 to March 5, 2021, 19 of the funds grew between 27.3 percent and 55 percent, outpacing the S&P 500 index’s 27.1 percent rise, according to S&P.