Scientific Beta

Fund Selector Asia: "Figures out from consultancy, Scientific Beta, having crunched the data on hundreds of strategies covering nearly $100bn in assets, suggest that contrary to popular opinion, ESG and socially responsible strategies (ETFs) have actually slightly underperformed the market over the last decade."

Fund Selector Asia, 29/09/23

"(…) “This fatigue could not come at a worse time. Figures out from consultancy, Scientific Beta, having crunched the data on hundreds of strategies covering nearly $100bn in assets, suggest that contrary to popular opinion, ESG and socially responsible strategies (ETFs) have actually slightly underperformed the market over the last decade. “Real-world’ ESG performance is unremarkable, with no evidence of sustainable ETFs outperforming,” Felix Goltz, research director at Scientific Beta said. “Quite often it’s suggested there should be some outperformance. [People say] ‘they are better businesses, they are going to generate higher returns’. That’s clearly not something we see in the data.”” (...)"