Scientific Beta

Pensions Expert: "Claims about the over or underperformance of ESG funds compared with non-ESG equivalents are contested, with a study last year from Scientific Beta suggesting that much of the overperformance commonly claimed by ESG advocates is in fact owed to non-ESG factors, such as high profitability and conservative investment."

Pensions Expert 26/07/2022

"(...) Claims about the over or underperformance of ESG funds compared with non-ESG equivalents are contested, with a study last year from Scientific Beta suggesting that much of the overperformance commonly claimed by ESG advocates is in fact owed to non-ESG factors, such as high profitability and conservative investment. That research also suggested that ESG fund performance was inflated by the surge in attention given to ESG since 2013, and could well fall away should that attention begin to wane. (...)"