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Counterpoint: Critics of ESG Funds Are Wrong — Sustainable Investing Delivers Competitive Returns
Sustainable investing now represents one in four dollars of the $46.6 trillion in U.S. assets under management.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Point: ESG — or Socially Responsible — Funds May Soothe Your Conscience but Could Weaken Your Portfolio
I have always been opposed to socially responsible investing — that is, investing with the aim of making a political statement — in the public pension environment.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Viewpoint: How Donor-Advised Funds Can Amp Up Their Giving Power
When you think of donor advised-funds or sustainable investing, you probably don’t think of a 1,600% gain in a single investment. But that’s exactly what happened for investors in ImpactAssets’ donor-advised fund.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, philanthropy
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SEC Commissioner’s Speech Rankles ESG Industry
The speech, which took on environmental, social and governance ratings and proxy voting especially, was seen by some in the impact investing business as anything from surprisingly uninformed to a call to action for the ESG industry to do better.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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What Counts as a “Green” Investment, Anyway?
To plug the gap, “sustainable investing” is spreading from a niche area of the financial sector into the mainstream. Investing along environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is one of the fastest-growing strategies in finance.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- ESG, greenwashing, impact investing
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Will Values-Based Investing Ever Take Off?
“ESG is so hard to define—people can’t even articulate what they’re trying to achieve,” says Joshua Miller, an investment strategist and estate planner with CIBC Private Wealth Management. At a presentation for clients in February, he says, investors saw data showing that companies scoring highly on ESG criteria tend to outperform. “I didn’t find anyone saying it’s bunk,” he says. “But a lot of people said, ‘We need more convincing.’ ”
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- Investing
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Morgan Stanley Adds Six New $10,000 Minimum Impact Portfolios to Investing with Impact Platform
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management announced the launch of a new suite of Impact Portfolios with a $10,000 minimum on its Investing with Impact platform.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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Growing Universe of Impact Investors Satisfied With Results
The annual snapshot of the market reveals an industry that’s growing steadily and is increasingly diversifying, in terms of the types of investors as well as the breadth of their interests.
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing
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