Sustainability in credit: why ESG scores don’t tell the whole story - Aviva Investors

ESG ratings are a helpful baseline to assess companies, but views on their ESG risks and opportunities can be honed – and sometimes corrected – through deeper research, trend analysis and meetings with company executives.

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... For a long time, investors assumed they had to choose between environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations and performance, as if opening one door shut the other. In fact, just like the health programmes Michael Erard wrote about, performance and ESG can be viewed as a set of keys hung on the same key ring, both helping to unlock value.

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