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The fifth episode of ‘Are we there yet?’ explains why ESG is more than just an equity play 

Paras Anand, Chief Investment Officer at Artemis, examines the case against sustainable investing and whether it will cause change in the industry.

The stockmarket is prone to bubbles and crashes. Craig Bonthron explains how the Artemis impact equities team seeks to reduce its exposure to those crises by seeking idiosyncratic sources of return.

Bond markets are signalling The Great Rotation is over. After falling to 77bps on November 5 2020, the 10-year US treasury yield saw an increase to 177bps on the 31 March 2021.

As we emerge from the immediacy of the coronavirus pandemic, the scale of the damage becomes ever more apparent. The human toll is stark, with the virus reported to have taken close to three quarters…

While investors’ knowledge about Responsible Investing has generally improved over the past few years, the increasing diversity of thought in the market has created new layers of confusion. Overall, investors are better equipped to grasp the distinctions between ESG and impact investing, but remain rather perplexed about the differences between sustainable and impact investing, often mixing one with the other. From a distance, sustainable and impact investing appear quite similar. A closer look, however, reveals meaningful differences.

As the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to cross the globe, and while we try to adapt and manage the risk, mitigate the economic impact and heed scientific advice, questions remain.

While responsible investment is hardly a new concept, there is a fair degree of confusion around some of the more recently introduced terminology – namely what is meant by ‘ESG’ (environmental, social and governance) and how this fits into the spectrum of traditional ‘ethical’ investing, ‘sustainable’ investing and ‘impact’ investing.