Investing that protects people and the planet is growing: new study maps the progress in South Africa

By Kara Nel, Contract lecturer in Business Management, Stellenbosch University
Nadia Mans-Kemp, Academic in the Department of Business Management, Stellenbosch University
Pierre Erasmus, Professor in Finance

Institutional investors who invest on behalf of others are increasingly considering environmental conservation and safe working conditions as investment criteria.

Sustainable investment has gained momentum in the last 20 years as asset managers – people who manage the day-to-day activities of institutional investors – have accepted the need to include sustainability criteria in their decision-making. In particular environmental, social and governance factors.

A study done in 2023 in North America, Europe and Asia reported…

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