Has including ESG become a necessity for investors?

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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ESG (environmental, social, governance) has become a hot topic in recent years, especially lately with the debate over whether pension funds should be able to factor in ESG when choosing investments. At Morningstar’s recent conference, the firm argued that ESG has become a requirement for long-term investors. Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Morningstar argues that ESG is a requirement Haywood Kelly, head of research at Morningstar, said he believes most good investors are ESG investors or should be whether they use that term or not. He noted that good investors think long term and want to partner…

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.