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Global ESG investments see outflows for first time (2024)

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May 28, 2024

Although American ESG funds and British ESG funds have seen outflows over the past couple of years, ESG had continued to grow globally until recently:

Although buoyant markets are still lifting their overall assets under management — now at apparently over $1.7tn — ESG funds are suffering severe outflows for the first time in their (admittedly limited) history this year.

The recent outflows can’t be based on dismal markets and broad outflows either: global equity funds that don’t explicitly market themselves as ESG-focused have taken in $216bn already this year, according to EPFR’s data….

[SocGen’s Arthur] Van Slooten reckons that the outflows are mainly due to the underperformance of a lot of mainstream ESG indices and approaches, and argues that an “overhaul” of the strategy — naturally including more analyst forecasts — would be better.[1]

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