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Is ESG investing the #1 neglect of Climate Change?
Consider the following.
* ESG basically means “green” or “environmentally friendly” investing.
While adding connected aspects of “good governance” and “human rights.”
*The S&P-500 is 80% of the USA stock market.
* About 1/3 of the S&P-500 corporations fail to meet ESG standards.
* The 2/3 majority prove that ESG standards are easily met.
*The S&P Corporation has managed an “ESG-500” index for over 10 years.
*There are also 5 exchange-traded mutual funds using ESG-500 variants.
*The ESG-500–and all 5 variants–perform equal to or better than the S&P-500.
*Nonetheless–the ESG-500 receives less than 1% of the USA stock market.
* In spite of the fact that about 50% to 90% of investors claim to prefer ESG.
* Meanwhile–news reports often claim that ESG investing is booming.
But ESG seems only booming from 0.1% to 1.1% of the USA stock market.
When–if only people knew about the ESG-500–it would at least be 40%.
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