ESG: Credit investing with a conscience

Making investment decisions based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors isn't just a woolly-minded 'trendy' move designed to appease the hairshirt-wearing green lobby. It actually makes financial sense, as Caroline Harrison of ASSET4 explains

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The growth in the number of signatories to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is an indication of the increasing importance of extra-financial issues for the investment community. The 500 signatories now account for over $18 trillion in AUM. But how much of those assets are invested in fixed income with a responsible investing focus?

Only $0.77 trillion of sovereign and quasi-sovereign bond investments, out of an estimated market total of $22.9 trillion, are invested

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