Ethical investing concerns: Has ESG gone off the rails?

As an investment firm that has taken into consideration environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors for more thab a decade, with close attention being paid since our founding in 2006 to corporate social responsibility, e.g. good governance, anti-corruption and bribery, and "putting something back" into communities, I am becoming increasingly queasy about the direction of travel of so-called ESG. In an article back in March, The parlous state of ESG, I lamented that what might have been a framework to encourage more ethical investing had become a bureaucratic nightmare of box-ticki...