In our fifth instalment of the series, we take a step away from stocks to focus on bond ETFs, delving deep into the Developed Investment Grade Bonds sector to identify the five ETFs with the highest ethical, sustainable and governance (ESG) ratings.
As previously, we do this with the help of TrackInsight's ESG tool, which it revealed in April, designed to give investors the capacity to assess the composition of a product under a socially responsible scope. The tool, powered by Conser, analyses ETF holdings via a "consensus-driven" technology, which gives insight into the ESG consensus on each individual holding, as well as "major controversies and breaches of international norms". To gain this score, the tool assesses multiple ESG sources, such as implicit evaluations of ratings agencies and sustainable asset managers. Due to the...
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