The False Promise of ESG Funds: Why They Fail Investors
While ESG investing promises both financial returns and societal benefits, it often fails massively on both fronts.
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While ESG investing promises both financial returns and societal benefits, it often fails massively on both fronts.
When John Bogle died in 2019, people around the world mourned. Bogle created the Vanguard Group and made the index fund mainstream. Index funds are investment vehicles that invest in a class of investments as a whole, rather than trying to predict what specific stocks or securities will do best. So an investor could invest in an […]
ESG, or “Environment, Social, and Governance,” is the new feel-good buzzword in the halls of global corporations and megabanks. It’s a PR push to cloak morally disastrous firms in a veneer of social and environmental responsibility — lip service — but at the end of the day, I believe the market will speak.