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Asia-Pacific Investors Raised Allocations Toward ESG Investments in 2020 March 15, 2021 Sustainable investments are not just picking up momentum in the United States. In the Asia-Pacific region, institutional investors raised allocations toward environmental, social, and governance investments during the pandemic last year as well. The global pandemic has helped raise ESG awareness, highlighting how catastrophic events like climate change can impact investment returns, CNBC reports. According to a recent MSCI 2021 Global Institutional Investor survey, in the Asia-Pacific region, around 79% of investors increased ESG exposure ‘significantly’ or ‘moderately’ in response to Covid-19. In comparison, 77% of investors globally raised exposure to sustainable investments last year. Overall, the figure jumped to 90% among the largest institutions, or those with more than $200 billion of assets. ....
February 25, 2021 Further clarifying the growing momentum behind sustainable investment strategies, MSCI Indexes revealed that it saw demand for environmental, social, and governance ratings and index products outpacing growth in its traditional indexing businesses. Baer Pettit, chief operating officer of MSCI, explained that $200 million of the firm’s revenues are now “tied to ESG and climate,” and are growing “in the 30 percentages in this area,” Barron’s reports. “It’s growing dramatically, faster than even the second major closest category, the index business.” In comparison, the latter is growing “in the low teens.” MSCI is one of the largest purveyors of ESG ratings and has enjoyed the rapid growth in sustainable investing. U.S.-domiciled sustainable investments have accumulated $17.1 trillion at the start of 2020, up 42% from two years earlier and about a third of total U.S. assets under management, according to US SIF data. ....
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