Financial News - What Is Driving the Anti-ESG...

Sports is a burgeoning asset class, and there are many ways for public investors to play a winning game. Barron’s Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Associate Editor Andrew Bary speak with Christopher J. Marangi, President & Co-CIO, Value at GAMCO/Gabelli Funds, about in ...  Show more

Andy Addison, proprietor of The Institutional View newsletter and research service, is a veteran technical analyst. He studies price action, moving averages, relative strength, and momentum indicators to gauge where asset prices may be headed. Barron's Senior Managing Editor Laur ...  Show more

Environmental, social and governance rules have come under additional pressure since the election of Donald Trump as US President. American businesses have also called for the European Union to roll back its ESG regulations, and France and Germany have indicated they want changes ...  Show more

Last week authorities raided the offices of Germany’s top asset manager DWS Group and its majority owner Deutsche Bank. The raid was spurred by allegations of greenwashing. That is, that DWS had made misleading claims about how sustainable or “green” some of its financial prod ...

ESG funds - which claim to promote environmental, social and corporate governance best practice - are all the rage. But are investors being taken for an expensive ride?Ed Butler speaks to one man with his doubts - Tariq Fancy, who used to be in charge of sustainability investing ...  Show more

ESG has become a buzzword within public companies and among asset managers. Central banks and big asset managers such as BlackRock have been championing these standards, asking companies to consider climate change and corporate governance. But ESG is also seeing a backlash. Gi ...