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Sustainability Increasingly Important for Investors: BCG
Gregory Unruh, David Kiron, Nina Kruschwitz, Martin Reeves, Holger Rubel, and Alexander Meyer zum Felde, BCG Perspectives
Sustainability is increasingly important for investors, as evidence mounts that companies’ environmental, social, and governance performance has an impact on long-term financial success.
BCG’s seventh sustainability report in collaboration with MIT Sloan Management Review found that 75% of senior executives in investment firms see a company’s sustainability performance as materially important to their investment decisions—and nearly half would not invest in a company with a poor sustainability track record. However, only 60% of managers in publicly traded companies believe that good sustainability practices influence investment decisions.
The report, Investing for a Sustainable Future: Investors Care More About Sustainability Than Many Executives Believe, is based on a survey of more than 3,000 executives and managers from more than 100 countries.
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