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I sat on a panel at a NIRI chapter meeting on Thursday with Don Kirshbaum, Investment Officer, Policy, at the Connecticut State Treasurer’s Office and Julie Gottlieb, who led the launch of Lenovo’s sustainability program and first report. The discussion was lively: several of the IROs in the room noted that they had never been asked about ESG risk, and one asked whether there had been any studies regarding performance of companies that focus on ESG performance. Happily, I was able to point to SAM’s long-short portfolio (long sustainability leaders, short sustainability laggards), which shows significant outperformance compared with each group; HIP Investor’s HIP 100 IndexSM, which, since 2004, has outperformed the S&P100; and a chart showing the DJSI solidly outperforming both the S&P500 and the DJIA even in this recession.

After the discussion, I was thinking, why are we still having… More >