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This Sign Suggests ESG Is Good For Investment Returns, But Here’s Why It Doesn’t Actually Matter

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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January introduced significant turmoil to the markets, and against that backdrop, flows into ESG funds overseen by Hargreaves Lansdown declined for the first month since March 2020. The firm reports that flows into ESG funds plummeted 115% year over year in January. In January 2021, ESG fund flows were up 115%, while in January 2020, they saw an astonishing 3,082% increase.

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.