Impact Investing
Sustainable Investing: A Force for Positive Change
Sustainable investing is an approach that incorporates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues when building an investment portfolio, while encouraging companies to improve their ESG risk-management practices.
Interest in sustainable investing continues to grow, which can be measured by the remarkable growth in assets under management (AUM) of more than $30.7 trillion1. In the process, sustainable investing has changed the investment industry, improved companies, and helped communities. These positive outcomes are aligned with the basic intention of sustainable investing: to build wealth responsibly without sacrificing investment principles.
We invite you to explore the links below to learn more about Impact Investing and whether it may be the right solution for you.
1 See linked article below for Sustainable Investing.
Is Impact Investing Right For You?
Can sustainable investing save the world? That’s the title of an influential research paper that reviews how sustainable investing can initiate changes in companies’ environmental and social impacts. Yet it also raises a broader question: What are we trying to do with sustainable investing?
Sustainable Investing
Sustainable investing has positively changed the investment industry by challenging and adapting traditional approaches of the investment decision-making process, to ultimately help you better understand where and how your money is invested.
Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) / Environmental Social Governance (ESG) investing has certain risks based on the fact that the criteria excludes securities of certain issuers for non-financial reasons and, therefore, investors may forgo some market opportunities and the universe of investments available will be smaller.