Why overly prudish ESG-focused pension funds could suffer
Pension funds wrestled with ESG responsibilities risk having a detrimental long-term effect on their returns if they make too many ethical exclusions in the short term.
With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns increasingly at the top of investors’ minds, questions are arising about how much sustainable investment funds should respond to some pension members’ desire to exclude companies they dislike.
ESG investing experts at a conference on Wednesday (September 10) argued that pension funds that get too carried away with excluding the assets of companies whose behaviour they find unsavoury risk hurting their investment returns - w…
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