Institutional Investors Report That ESG Will Be a Future Focus
Data uncovers motivations for considering environmental, social and governance factors in investments, as well as which factors investors are more concerned about.
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In a new report, “Everyone’s on the ESG Investing Bandwagon,” investment manager Natixis reports that last year, environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments took in a record $152 billion to reach $1.6 trillion in total assets. And asset managers launched a record number of ESG products: 196. Natixis’s findings are based on results in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
The percentage of institutional investors that implement ESG approaches rose by 18% from 2019 to 2021, while the number of fund selectors using ESG strategies rose from 65% to 77% over three years.