ESG funds should provide a double bottom line of eliciting a positive social and/or environmental change and a market-rate financial return.

As scrutiny picks up, major financial firms are adjusting their businesses to ensure that clients get more say over environmental, social and governance matters.

Dimensional Co-CEO Dave Butler describes his journey from professional basketball to preaching the power of efficient portfolios.

The regulator has some valid concerns about “greenwashing,” but its solutions are straight out of the New Deal, top-down playbook from the 1930s.

Stock pickers are beating the S&P 500 in droves, but it’s a mistake to assume their success will persist.

In one proposed change, the SEC would expand an existing rule to ensure funds labeled ESG invest at least 80% of their assets in a way that lines up with that strategy.

Despite increasing popularity, ESG faces many head winds, namely modest adoption in retirement plans and mixed returns.

The charges come as investment advisors increasingly use ESG metrics to appeal to investors, according to SEC Enforcement Division Deputy Director Sanjay Wadhwa.

Today’s staggering array of investment options provides a false sense of meaningful diversification, writes a managing director of Chilton Trust.