Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing needs to be thought of purely in terms of "the delivery of alpha", according to Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) head of sustainable funds Mike Fox.
Speaking at the Adviser Home ‘Sustainable Investing' event, Fox (pictured) said ESG should not just be looked upon as the implementation of personal beliefs but also as the delivery of investment performance. "As a fund manager and nothing else, I view this as a market inefficiency - and so a way of delivering alpha," he added. ESG had largely been underused by fund managers, explained Fox, because its more subjective considerations were quite different to the factors traditionally used to analyse potential investments. "This is the only industry I can think of where people still...
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