Integrating Responsible Investing in Passive Management
Friday 08 February 2019
ESG
Integrating Responsible Investing in Passive Management
When it comes to core passive investing products, where portfolio managers buy every company in the benchmark, “this is where the idea comes from that you cannot incorporate ESG into passive solutions because you have to do index replication,” Laurent Trottier, Global Head of ETF, Indexing and Smart Beta Management, explains.
One way that Amundi addresses this is to bring together passive and active funds when it talks to the companies whose shares it owns, since the inception of the very first index fund.