Mixed assets only ESG funds to keep money in volatile markets

Refinitiv Lipper data

ESG mixed asset funds have fared better than their peers and conventional rivals in a choppy first three quarters of 2022, according to Refinitiv Lipper data.

Mixed asset ESG funds managed to stay in the black over the whole period, if only just for the third quarter. They took £3bn in the nine months to the end of September, adding £106m in the last three months of the period. Overall, amid talk of a rush for the exits from ESG funds throughout this year, investors have kept faith in the sector. Morgan Stanley IM expands ESG range with two new funds Global ESG equity funds are in the black to the tune of £10.9bn, while their conventional equivalents have seen redemptions of £46.3bn.  Over the third quarter, however, ESG equity fun...