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Chinese index provider Sino-Securities Index Information Service (Shanghai) Co (SSI) has introduced a series of indexes that focus on sustainability to capture the rising green investment trend as Beijing puts greater focus on climate change.
SSI teamed up with Hong Kong venture capital manager Donkey Ministry to roll out nine large- and mid-cap Chinese equities indexes this February, including five with environmental, social and governance (ESG) screening.
The ESG benchmarks can provide Mainland investors with more options to access sustainable investing, according to Liu Zhong, founder and general manager of SSI.
“ESG is becoming one of the most popular investment themes in China’s ETF [exchange-traded fund] space as the government outlines a number of initiatives to facilitate green energy and climate-related developments,” Liu says in an interview with