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Making Sense of ESG Investing: Going Beyond the Hype

Efforts to incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing principles have grown in recent years, as investors seek to deploy capital toward positive societal outcomes. Propelled by surging consumer demand for sustainable business practices, banks and money managers have adopted various ESG mandates in their investment protocols. Despite this growth, 2022 was a challenging year for ESG investing, with policymakers and investors expressing frustration about the lack of standardization in the sector.

Estimates about the size and growth rate of the ESG sector vary wildly, mostly because we can’t agree on a unified definition of what ESG actually entails. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), ESG-focused institutional investment will make up 21.5% of assets under management by 2026 – that’s $33.9 trillion in actual dollar figures. Meanwhile, Bloomberg Intelligence says the ESG sector is on track to eclipse $53 trillion by 2025, or roughly a third of global assets under management.

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