ESG's Evolving Performance: First, Do No Harm

In this paper, Axioma's Director of Index Solutions, Anthony A. Renshaw, PhD, evaluates the investment performance of ESG, paying particular attention to recent performance and highlighting the difference between ESG scores that overlap with traditional risk model factors and those that don’t. His analysis indicates that, in general, increasing exposure to ESG rarely underperforms the market, and often outperforms the market, especially during the last few years.