Armchair Critic: Should sustainable investing sustain your interest?

At heart, investment is pretty basic, isn't? Growth or income or combinations thereof? Fiscal efficiency or to achieve a particular goal? Then, subject to acceptable risk, the firm or firms charged with delivering against these objectives simply do so to the best of their professional ability - managing assets as they see fit? Yet this is no longer the whole of the story. Now, the question is being asked - which assets? Are these assets run on acceptable lines in terms of ESG - that is, environmental, social and governance - considerations? The idea of ESG … or socially responsible inves...