Environmental, social and governance-led investment strategies endured a tough 2024. Questions were raised about the effectiveness of such strategies given the environmental disasters we witnessed and the social scandals that made the headlines, while the backlash in some US states showed little sign of abating.
But many institutional investors are using the floods, bushfires and hurricanes as examples of why they need to push forward with their decarbonisation strategies and efforts to reduce inequality.
For the latest edition of portfolio institutional, we spoke to those investing on behalf of pension schemes and insurers to find out what trends could emerge in ESG-led strategies during the year ahead.
