Dear Fellow Supporters of Integrated Reporting,
I am writing to announce yesterday’s publication of a paper “The Investing Enlightenment: How Principle and Pragmatism Can Create Sustainable Value through ESG” that I wrote with Mirtha D. Kastrapeli, the Head of Sustainable Investment Research at State Street’s Center for Applied Research. You can read an overview of the paper in this press release from State Street.
The paper is based on two global surveys focused on “ESG integration in the investment decision-making process.” The first one covered 582 institutional investors, evenly split between asset owners and asset managers. and equity and fixed income. Those surveyed were implementing – or were planning to – ESG investing in some fashion. The second one covered 750 retail investors, including some who don’t practice ESG investing. Our paper focuses on the results of the institutional survey with some key findings from the retail survey. We plan to be writing more about both surveys in the future.
Kind regards,
Bob