Evidence from a wide range of sources suggests that investors do not have to sacrifice  returns as a consequence of adopting ESG, ethical or impact-based investment strategies.*

These can perform just as well as “conventional” strategies that eschew ESG, ethical or impact investing criteria completely. In some instances they may perform even better.

But what would a typical ESG portfolio look like compared to one structured on conventional lines?

The answer is not much different at all, at least compared based on a casual and rather unstructured examination of a variety of passive and actively managed...