Find out more on the ESG Global Survey
Sustainable investing trends
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Most important element for defining a sustainable investment
27%
It meets your organisation’s own criteria for defining sustainable investments
19%
It makes a measurable, positive impact on ESG criteria
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Preferred ESG approach/strategy
Top 3 preferred approaches (for the next two years)
54%
ESG integration (vs. 71% now)
51%
Impact investing (vs. 41% now)
49%
Active ownership (vs. 51% now)
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Priority ESG topics
Respondents say investment, voting and engagement will focus in the next two years on
49%
Environmental damage and biodiversity loss
48%
Diversity, equity and inclusion
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Providing asset managers’ reduction targets is on the rise
52%
are imposing carbon reduction targets on their external asset manager
32%
plan to do so in the next two years
Data and reporting
Data quality remains the biggest barrier to ESG investing
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see inconsistent and incomplete ESG data as a significant barrier to ESG adoption
Getting around ESG data challenges
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use and compare multiple sources of data to get around the ESG data issues
ESG reporting is often integrated into financial reporting
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say it is their preferred
method when producing
ESG reports
ESG integration into operations
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ESG expertise integrated into investment-related operations
47%
say their organisation is integrating ESG expertise and data into portfolio management / investment decisions
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Criteria for selecting a provider
Top 3 criteria when selecting partners
54%
Transparency of data methodology
38%
Brand reputation on ESG
43%
ESG skills and expertise