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 # Money Managers and the Growth of ESG Investing

 


 

 Jan 13, 2021 9:15 AM ET

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[Money Managers and the Growth of ESG Investing](https://greenmoney.com/esg-incorporation-by-money-managers/)

The US SIF Foundation in its new SRI Trends Report identified 384 money managers and 1,204 community investing institutions incorporating ESG criteria into their investment analysis and decision-making processes. The $16.6 trillion in ESG incorporation assets they represent is **a nearly 43 percent increase** over the $11.6 trillion in such assets identified in 2018.

In terms of assets, money managers incorporate ESG factors fairly evenly across environmental, social and governance categories:.

Overall, in asset-weighted terms, money managers incorporated social factors slightly more than environmental and governance criteria. Social criteria incorporation by money managers increased 49 percent from 2018 to $16.1 trillion.

Environmental criteria as a whole grew faster than social or governance factors over the past two years, increasing 57 percent, from $10.1 trillion to nearly $16.0 trillion.

Among all specific ESG criteria, governance factors related to executive pay saw the greatest growth, increasing 122 percent since 2018 to $2.2 trillion, as shown in Figure E.

However, **climate change remains the most important specific ESG issue** considered by money managers in asset weighted terms. The assets to which this criterion applies increased 39 percent from 2018 to 2020 to $4.2 trillion,

***Read complete article and the accompaning graphs, here*** - <https://greenmoney.com/esg-incorporation-by-money-managers>

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