8Resilience as an Analytical Filter for ESG Data

Ashby Monk and Dane Rook

DOI: 10.4324/9781003262039-10

Introduction

The recent years have witnessed a meteoric rise in the consideration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment decision-making.1 To help investors address ESG issues in their portfolios, a massive support infrastructure has emerged, which includes ESG ratings agencies, new ESG investment products, ESG research providers, and ESG consultants.2 Despite this mushrooming ecosystem, actual ESG analysis (what might be thought of as the translation of ESG issues into financial risks) has yet to become part of mainstream investment practice. How might ESG analysis be made mainstream—just another given of ...

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