Bank financing for both fossil fuels and low-carbon energy actually declined in 2022.
ESG fund flows have showed signs of cooling against a backdrop of continued political attacks and disappointing returns.
Despite outflows and political pressures, Neuberger Berman believes ESG strategies are here to stay.
Globally, so-called ESG Leader companies generated average annual returns of 12.9% over nine years compared with 8.6% for Laggards.
Asset managers are pushing back more successfully against proxy proposals from climate and social activists.
This year's proxy season is shaping up to be a real doozy.
Does the world really want - or need - more broadly targeted ESG ETFs?
An absence of clear ESG standards could pave the wave for legal action.
BlackRock, for all its ESG talk, has about $170 billion invested in publicly traded U.S. energy companies.
Like Republican governors, Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, is attacking ESG investing.