Louie French: A decade of change in ESG investing

The dizzying rise of ESG investing has arguably been the most striking feature of asset management over the last 10 years. According to Morningstar, ESG fund assets surpassed $1trn in December 2019 and now stand at $2.2trn globally at the end of June 2021. Having analysed funds in the space for the past decade, the scale of this growth is hard to overstate. But while the sector can now seem ubiquitous, it is worthwhile looking back at how - and why - we got here. Below are the most significant developments I have witnessed over the last 10 years, first as an analyst and then portfo...