This year Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) and climate investing came into the white-hot glare of the political spotlight. However, the “Anti-ESG” movement, a politically motivated pushback against “woke capitalism,” was not an attack on asset managers doing too little, but on those doing too much.
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