“Many asset managers have stopped offering funds supporting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in the face of political backlash. In new research, Omar Vasquez Duque shows that much of this backlash is due to semantics and poor fund design, and that investors across the political spectrum are willing to take lower financial returns to support specific goals under the ESG label.”

[COMMENTARY] I’ve long held that the anti-ESG crowd don’t understand ESG and that companies will engage and increase ESG-type activities for no other reason than to improve operational efficiencies — and corporate profits!
ESG Investing Isn’t as Divisive as We Think, by Omar Vásquez Duque, February 11, 2025, Promarket, USA.