Find out more on the ESG Global Survey
Sustainable investing trends
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
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)
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
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
see inconsistent and incomplete ESG data as a significant barrier to ESG adoption
Getting around ESG data challenges
use and compare multiple sources of data to get around the ESG data issues
ESG reporting is often integrated into financial reporting
say it is their preferred
method when producing
ESG reports
ESG integration into operations
ESG expertise integrated into investment-related operations
47%
say their organisation is integrating ESG expertise and data into portfolio management / investment decisions
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