ESG & Investing

ESG Advocates Say GOP Backlash Gives Industry an Opportunity

  • Delaware treasurer says conversation focuses on future of ESG
  • Professor Eccles says ‘start making friends with Republicans’
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All of the Republican-led backlash against ESG investing has presented the industry with an opportunity to reinvent itself. At least that’s the view of several ESG supporters at a marquee sustainable-investing conference in Boston.

Delaware State Treasurer Colleen Davis said it’s a good thing that more conversation is centered on the future of environmental, social and governance factors because it will help the investment strategy become better defined.