Why factory farming is becoming a major risk to portfolios

ESG initiative hits $1trn mark

Alan Briefel, executive director of the Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return Initiative, explains why exposure to factory farms is becoming one of the biggest risks in many portfolios.

In the last decade, we have seen investors respond en masse to major global trends such as rising populations, a warming climate and shifting economic power from west to east. To ensure the impacts of these trends feed into risk management and return enhancement strategies, hundreds of institutions now take environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues such as climate change, employee diversity and anti-corruption into account into their investment process. Sustainable investing drivers for 2016: Healthcare, technology and ESG leadership For example, Bloomberg recently revealed...