Sustainable and Responsible Investment Trends
The Trends report includes analyses of community investing, shareholder advocacy, and integration of environmental, social, and governance criteria across all asset classes among US-domiciled funds.
December 8th, 2020
Croatan Institute President and Senior Fellow Joshua Humphreys and US SIF CEO Lisa Woll discuss leading trends in sustainable finance and impact investing in the United States. This conversation featured findings from the recently released 2020 Report on US Sustainable and Impact Investing Trends, the most comprehensive, quantitative study of the state of the field, published bi-annually by the US SIF Foundation in close collaboration with Croatan Institute. Humphreys and Woll explore major developments in the industry, including impacts of the 2020 election, COVID-19, and the racial equity crisis on the field, as well as the challenges and opportunities associated with the mainstreaming of sustainable investing.
The Trends report includes analyses of community investing, shareholder advocacy, and integration of environmental, social, and governance criteria across all asset classes among US-domiciled funds.
This year’s report found that sustainable and impact investing (SRI) assets now account for $17.1 trillion—or one in three dollars—of the $51.4 trillion in total assets under professional management in the United States.
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