This is an excerpt from a feature story that will appear in the February issue of i3.
Investing to meet sustainable investment goals has become a mainstay strategy after a decade of trending, and recently the market has grown even more popular, as economies speed the transition to renewable sources of energy and sustainable development. For fund managers operating in this market during a period of steady growth, the ballooning interest and the push by climate-conscious institutional investors to decarbonize portfolios is leading investment managers to find opportunities in an increasingly competitive market for these kinds of investments.
Sustainable investing, with the dual mandates of financial and social goals, has taken time to be fully embraced by a majority of investors, and the question of whether financial and social goals produce the strongest returns has been an ongoing debate. But now a tipping point has been reached, and demand for these strategie
