According to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (USSIF), sustainable investing is involved in one out of every three dollars that is professionally invested in the U.S. This equates to around $17 trillion in total assets invested using sustainable investing principles.
Globally, nearly 5,000 investment managers, asset owners, financial services providers are Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) signatories (what are they signing onto?).
Finally, the wise finance student and professional recognizes that the rise of sustainable/ESG investing faces criticism around the quality of data, trustworthiness of claims of impact, and an overall sense that ESG investing perhaps wasn’t even “designed to save the planet” in the first place (Harvard Business Review).
