{"id":19818,"date":"2020-10-09T08:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T12:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/institutional-investors-increasingly-interested-in-esg-factors-survey-150868"},"modified":"2020-10-09T08:45:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T12:45:36","slug":"institutional-investors-increasingly-interested-in-esg-factors-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/10\/09\/institutional-investors-increasingly-interested-in-esg-factors-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutional investors increasingly interested in ESG factors: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/114822025_s-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Institutional investors increasingly interested in ESG factors: survey\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 9, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;third (33 per cent) of institutional investors that haven\u2019t yet incorporated environmental, social and governance factors into their investment decisions said they\u2019re considering it, according to a new survey by investment consulting firm Callan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The annual survey, which&nbsp;polled 102 U.S. institutional investors this summer, found the percentage is the highest rate of ESG interest in the survey\u2019s history and nearly three times the result from 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe the move toward more ESG incorporation is consistent with the long-term investment approach of institutional investors,\u201d said Tom Shingler, senior vice-president and chair of Callan\u2019s ESG committee, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/most-canadian-institutional-investors-engaging-in-esg-issues-123391\">Most Canadian institutional investors engaging in ESG issues: survey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, 42 per cent of institutional investors said they already incorporate ESG factors into investment decisions, which mirrors&nbsp;the 2019 survey result but is nearly double the finding of 22 per cent from&nbsp;Callan\u2019s first survey in 2013. Meanwhile, public plans have incorporated ESG factors into investment decisions at a slightly higher rate (36 per cent) than their corporate counterparts (32 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>For all investors, endowments remained the top ESG incorporator, with those surveyed increasing their adoption rate&nbsp;to 63 per cent in 2020, compared&nbsp;to 58 per cent in 2019. Despite the trend toward adoption, 56 per cent of respondents said they haven\u2019t incorporated ESG into investment decision-making, citing unproven or unclear benefits as the main rationale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/two-thirds-of-institutional-investors-use-esg-analysis-105698\">Two-thirds of institutional investors use ESG analysis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/institutional-investors-increasingly-interested-in-esg-factors-survey-150868\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 9, 2020 A&nbsp;third (33 per cent) of institutional investors that haven\u2019t yet incorporated environmental, social and governance factors into their investment decisions said they\u2019re considering it, according to a new survey by investment&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}