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December 21, 2020 Even before environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing became popular in the United States capital markets, ESG was already gaining ground in other parts of the globe. However, if ETF investors have a domestic bias to ESG in the U.S., funds like the USSG was developed in collaboration with Ilmarinen, Finland’s largest pension insurance company. The underlying MSCI USA ESG Leaders Index provides exposure to large- and medium-cap U.S. companies with high ESG performance relative to their sector peers. For the ESG investor looking for value opportunities, USSG of...

"We were not necessarily expecting this to be the year where ESG really takes off, but clearly it has attracted a lot of attention, both in terms of the companies and what they're doing from an ESG perspective [and] certainly from a flows point of view," said Lee, who is global head of research for MSCI's ESG Research group. Topping Lee's list of ESG trends to watch in 2021 is climate change. "Despite all the lockdowns that we've had this year, we're still on track for a world that is going to be too warm to sustain life as we know it, according to climate science," Lee said. "You're going to...