A growing number of asset managers offer strategies carrying a dedicated ESG or impact label. US-based Goldman Sachs, France’s Amundi, Japan’s SMAM and Swiss bank UBS do it — and the list could go on.
Most investment managers claim that sustainability and responsibility are an integrated part of how they invest. But the supply of products with a ESG or impact label grows almost week by week, which raises the obvious question: If ESG is integrated in all of the investment processes, why the need to offer labelled products?
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