Scientific Beta

finews.asia: "ESG and sustainable investment approaches such as sustainable thematics, low carbon, or impact investing vary significantly in quality and substance, creating the false interpretation that they are equally sustainable. Take climate alignment, for example an EDHEC study revealed that when comparing a fund labeled «green» with a conventional investment fund, stock weights are only 12 percent different, while the remaining 88 percent are the same.".

finews.asia 18/10/2021

"(...) It has become clear that intentional greenwashing by bad actors and unintentional greenwashing by less competent and less rigid actors may be seriously undermining the entire sustainability sector. Sustainable investing has never been fully defined. ESG and sustainable investment approaches such as sustainable thematics, low carbon, or impact investing vary significantly in quality and substance, creating the false interpretation that they are equally sustainable. Take climate alignment, for example an EDHEC study revealed that when comparing a fund labeled «green» with a conventional investment fund, stock weights are only 12 percent different, while the remaining 88 percent are the same. (...)"