##{"id":81070,"date":"2019-06-25T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/?p=81070"},"modified":"2019-06-25T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:26:53","slug":"esg-focus-responsible-investing-gaining-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/25\/esg-focus-responsible-investing-gaining-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"ESG Focus: Responsible Investing Gaining Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>FNArena&#039;s dedicated&nbsp;ESG Focus news section zooms in on matters Environmental, Social &amp; Governance (ESG) that are increasingly guiding investors preferences and decisions globally. For more news updates, past and future:<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/financial-news\/daily-financial-news\/category\/esg-focus\/\">https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/financial-news\/daily-financial-news\/category\/esg-focus\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment --><u><strong>Responsible Investing Gaining Momentum<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>By Sarah Mills<\/p>\n<p><strong>-Impact investment on the rise, reports GIIN<br \/>\n-Corbin investor survey shows ESG growing in importance<br \/>\n-Investors&#039; greatest frustration lack of quality data on small cap companies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Impact investing is continuing to rise according to the <strong>2019 Annual Impact Survey from the Global Impact Investing Network<\/strong> (GIIN), both from new entrants and reinvestment of returns.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also shows that impact investing is meeting or exceeding investor expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Impact investing is the practice of directing funds towards projects, including greenfield projects, that have a positive impact on the environment and society.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the survey posted its largest number of respondents, at 266, and its biggest dollar-value of assets under management, at $239bn.<\/p>\n<p>GIINs more comprehensive <em>Sizing the Impact Investing Market<\/em> report published earlier this year and collated from publicly available data, estimates the total market to be $502bn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive maxwidth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/FNArena\/ESG%20Focus%20-%20Magnifying%20Quality.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The survey shows&nbsp;the majority of respondents&rsquo; investments met or exceeded their expectations for both impact (98%) and financial (91%) performance.<\/p>\n<p>The eighty investors that responded to the survey every year between 2015 to 2019 recorded a compound annual growth rate of almost 17%.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<em>This year&rsquo;s survey shows our industry is increasingly sophisticated<\/em>,&rdquo; says GIIN CEO and founder Amit Bouri, noting that after nine surveys, the hard evidence on impact investing is starting to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<em>We are starting to overcome challenges that used to stop conversations before they started, such as the misperception that financial trade-offs are necessary across all impact investment strategies. Fully one-third of survey respondents are motivated to make impact investments because of, not in spite of, their financial return potential<\/em>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Survey respondents included fund managers, foundations, banks, development finance institutions, family offices, pension funds and others.<\/p>\n<p>Assets are allocated globally with roughly half invested in emerging markets.<\/p>\n<p>Energy snared the largest share of the funding pie (15%), followed by microfinance (13%) and other financial services (11%).<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Corbin investor surveys show &ldquo;G&rdquo; still king of ESG<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>Corbin Research<\/strong> has surveyed 500 institutional investors and 100 investor-relations officers at top US companies to gauge investor approaches to Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) investing.<\/p>\n<p>About 76% reported that ESG had become more prominent in their investment process over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of focus remains on the &ldquo;G&rdquo; for governance, with 73% reporting governance was important-to-critical in their decision-making process. This compared to only 30% for both environment and social investment factors.<\/p>\n<p>Investors&rsquo; greatest frustration was the lack of quality data and access to data on ESG factors in the small-cap sector, with 48% identifying this as a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Investors reported that ESG was just one input into their analysis; and said a low ESG score would not necessarily result in a sell decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>FNArena&#039;s dedicated&nbsp;ESG Focus news section zooms in on matters Environmental, Social &amp; Governance (ESG) that are increasingly guiding investors preferences and decisions globally. For more news updates, past and future:<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/financial-news\/daily-financial-news\/category\/esg-focus\/\">https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/financial-news\/daily-financial-news\/category\/esg-focus\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Find out why FNArena subscribers like the service so much: &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index4.cfm?type=dsp_newsitem&amp;n=29EB960D-9DFF-C00E-7F6B464E5D52E250\">Your Feedback (Thank You)<\/a>&quot; &#8211; Warning this story contains unashamedly positive feedback on the service provided.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FNArena&nbsp;is proud about its track record and past achievements: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/rudis-view-ten-years-on-the-world-is-still-turning\/\">Ten Years On<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global investors are increasingly incorporating ESG in their investment research, according to two recent surveys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}