Events for May 2, 2025

The systematic integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment strategies, and investment decision making across asset classes, has been gaining traction globally.  Asset owners around the world were early adopters of sustainable investment commitments, taking leadership roles—in their capacity as fiduciaries—to advocate for the achievement of long term, sustainable, risk-adjusted returns, consistent with their fiduciary duty.  As noted by CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the U.S. with a long-term time horizon, “sustainable investment means taking account of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors across all our day-to-day investment business.”