Sustainable Investing: A Force for Positive Change

Sustainable investing is a force for positive change. While regional terminology may differ, sustainable investing is an approach that incorporates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues when building an investment portfolio, while encouraging companies to improve their ESG risk-management practices. Interest in sustainable investing continues to grow, which can be measured by the remarkable growth in assets under management (AUM) of more than $30.7 trillion.1 In the process, sustainable investing has changed the investment industry, improved companies, and helped communities. These extraordinary outcomes are aligned with the basic intention of sustainable investing: to build wealth responsibly without sacrificing investment principles.