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    ESG in passive: let the buyer beware (Schroders)

    ESG in passive: let the buyer beware (Schroders)

    Are investors ignoring the small print in their rush to buy funds incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles?

    There has certainly been no shortage of demand. From what was virtually a standing start 12 years ago, $2.9 billion flowed into these “sustainability” funds in 2017.

    It will surprise no-one that at least half of those flows were into exchange traded funds (ETFs). Passive ETFs neatly tick two of the boxes high on investors’ current list of priorities: low fees and meeting ESG concerns.

     

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