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Is ESG investing a panacea or Chinese Communist conspiracy?
By ROBIN POWELL After years of extraordinary growth, the industry that’s built up around environmental, social and governance, or ESG investing, is facing a backlash. Some are now questioning the entire premise of ESG investing, seeing in it a type of “woke capitalism” that gets in the way of shareholder interests. For […]
ESG strategies: do risk factors explain returns?
By LARRY SWEDROE The dramatic increase in interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has been accompanied by increased attention from researchers attempting to explain the sources of returns of ESG investment strategies. Specifically, researchers have sought to determine if the returns to ESG strategies can be explained by existing asset […]
