ESG set to take center stage, institutional investors say

The pandemic has driven up adoption of ESG strategies.

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Environmental, social and governance investing is shifting from a “side issue” to a strategy for institutional investors’ core funds, according to the “MSCI Investor Insights 2021: Global institutional investor survey.” Over a quarter of respondents believe that by the end of 2021, ESG analysis and decision making would be “completely” integrated into their main fund, and 34% said it would be incorporated “to a large extent.”

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