Equity funds take majority of sustainable inflows in 2023

LSEG Lipper UK ESG fund flows report

Cristian Angeloni
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Equity funds took the largest share of sustainable inflows in the first three quarters of 2023, bagging £9.6bn, according to data from LSEG Lipper.

Of those, just over £2bn of inflows were added in the third quarter. Over the same time period, equity funds also experienced £16.4bn of ‘conventional' outflows. LSEG Lipper found flows in the other asset classes over the three quarters were "muted", with bonds taking in £1.1bn in sustainable inflows, while conventional peers netted ten times more at £11.2bn. Sustainable money market funds gathered around £800m over the nine months, while conventional peers shed £54.5bn, likely a result of pension funds redeploying cash towards safer holdings, Lipper said.  Similarly, both sustaina...

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