Investors have pulled billions, funds have closed and proxy voting is down. But proponents say the strategy remains viable, ...

The materiality of ESG factors differs across sectors and markets. Investors need to understand how. As environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors help contribute to—or detract from—security ...

As ESG factors help contribute to - or detract from - security returns, it makes sense for active investors to integrate them into security selection. Factor attribution using historical returns can ...

An important question for investors in environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies is: What is the impact of ESG strategies on expected returns? Should they expect higher or lower ...

It’s no secret that investors and asset managers alike have been assigning growing importance to environmental, social and governance dimensions during the selection of assets in portfolios. Now, when ...

Asset owners and managers have faced political backlash and lawsuits for their use of environmental, social and governance factors when investing (especially BlackRock). Those rebukes led to some ...

While ESG factors play an important role in real estate managers' investment decisions, asset owners also are asking managers to look inward at their own firms' diversity and inclusion efforts. Gender ...

Capital continues to flow to ESG funds. Consider research from PwC showing that, globally, ESG-related assets under management are expected to increase to $33.9tn by 2026, from $18.4tn in 2021.

Interest and investment in hedge funds that incorporate environmental, social and governance factors are on the rise among U.S. investors, although demand still trails that of European investors.

UPDATE: Dec. 1, 2022: The U.S. Department of Labor published its final rule today on retirement plan fiduciaries' consideration of environmental, social and governance factors under under Title I of ...

According to a global two-phase survey from Morningstar Indexes and Sustainalytics, asset owners are not, by and large, implementing ESG factors in their portfolios. The Voice of the Asset Owner ...