Could the fund industry split along partisan political and ideological lines?
The SEC may start requiring managers to disclose additional information about their ESG principles.
What ESG represents at its base is critical to modern corporate decision-making, a McKinsey report says.
The firm recommended that financial advisors reduce their tech and small-cap positions.
Clean-energy funds have remained largely immune to calls for stricter regulation.
The company has lagged in the social and governance areas of ESG investing, critics say.
Even with the April slump, money keeps pouring into ESG-labeled funds.
As ESG becomes less meaningful, its investing rationale evaporates.
A lack of hard standards makes it hard for investors to find true ESG offerings, the study concluded.
ESG has yet to catch on with most investors, mostly attracting the focus of a handful of institutions.