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Research and analysis to keep sustainable investors up to-date on a broad range of topics that include trends and developments in sustainable investing and sustainable finance regulatory updates, performance results and considerations, investing through Index funde and actively managed portfolios, asset allocation updates, expenses, ESG ratings and data, company and product news, green, social and sustainable bonds, green bond funds as well as reporting and disclosure practices, to name just a few.

Research and analysis to keep sustainable investors up to-date on a broad range of topics that include trends and developments in sustainable investing and sustainable finance, regulatory updates, performance results and considerations, investing through index funds and actively managed portfolios, asset allocation updates, expenses, ESG ratings and data, company and product news, green, social and sustainable bonds, green bond funds as well as reporting and disclosure practices, to name just a few.   

A continuously updated Funds Directory is also available to investors.  This is intended to become a comprehensive listing of sustainable mutual funds, ETFs and other investment products along with a description of their sustainable investing approaches as set out in fund prospectuses and related regulatory filings.

Chart of the Week – June 30, 2025: Making a direct impact via QCDs

Sustainable Bottom Line:  Qualified sustainable investors can make direct and potentially measurable impacts in the form of tax efficient charitable contributions via Qualified Charitable Distributions.

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Chart of the Week – June 23, 2025: Sustainable foreign large blend funds for globally diversified portfolios

Sustainable Bottom Line:  Foreign large blend funds have been outperforming the SP 500 recently and should continue to do so based on capital market projections.

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Sustainable Investing Monitor-June 1, 2025

Sustainable Bottom Line: Focused sustainable funds ended May with $346 billion, gaining $14.3 billion, and eked out inflows, while three of six sustainable indices outperformed.

Chart of the Week – June 9, 2025: Sustainable high yield funds recover to lead on 12-M basis

Sustainable Bottom Line: Focused sustainable high yield funds ended May as the top performing taxable fixed income funds investment category over the trailing 12 months.  Notes of Explanation: Funds are listed in order of their trailing 12-month total returns through May 30, 2025Total return performance to May 30, 2025.

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Chart of the Week – June 2, 2025: Risks of small sized funds

Sustainable Bottom Line: The recent liquidation of the only two ocean-focused thematic funds highlight the risks of investing in funds that do not achieve scale.

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Core questions to ask financial advisors during an interview

The Bottom Line:  Investors seeking to hire a financial advisor should interview multiple advisors before deciding and prepare a set of core questions in advance.

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Chart of the Week – May 26, 2025: Financial Advisor Survey Findings-2025

Sustainable Bottom Line:  Inaugural survey of FAs worldwide shows strong interest in private markets while ESG ranked as least important to their private wealth clients.

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Sustainable Investing Monitor-May 1, 2025

Sustainable Bottom Line: Focused long-term sustainable funds ended April with $331.7 billion in assets, a $7.3 billion drop, and experienced outflows, while ESG indices stabilized.

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Research

Research and analysis to keep sustainable investors up to-date on a broad range of topics that include trends and developments in sustainable investing and sustainable finance, regulatory updates, performance results and considerations, investing through index funds and actively managed portfolios, asset allocation updates, expenses, ESG ratings and data, company and product news, green, social and sustainable bonds, green bond funds as well as reporting and disclosure practices, to name just a few.

A continuously updated Funds Directory is also available to investors.  This is intended to become a comprehensive listing of sustainable mutual funds, ETFs and other investment products along with a description of their sustainable investing approaches as set out in fund prospectuses and related regulatory filings.

Getting started

Many questions have surfaced in recent years regarding sustainable and ESG investing.  Here, investors and financial intermediaries will find materials that describe the various approaches to sustainable investing and their implementation.  While sustainable investing approaches vary and they have thus far defied universally accepted definitions, many practitioners agree that they fall into the following broad categories:  Values-based investing, investing via exclusions, impact investing, thematic investments and ESG integration.  In conjunction with each of these approaches, investors may also adopt various issuer engagement procedures and proxy voting practices.  That said, sustainable investing approaches will continue to evolve.

In addition to periodic updates regarding sustainable investing and how this form of investing is evolving, investors and financial intermediaries interested in implementing a sustainable investing approach will also find source materials that cover basic investing themes as well as asset allocation tactics.

Inesting ideas

Thoughts and ideas targeting sustainable investing strategies executed through various registered and non-registered sustainable investment funds and products such as mutual funds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs), closed-end funds, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Unit Investment Trusts (UITs). Coverage extends to investment management firms as well as fund groups. 

Independent source for sustainable investment management company research, analysis, opinions and sustainable fund disclosure assessments