Chart of the Week

The types and scale of sustainability bond and loan investing has grown dramatically.

A growing number of companies are attending to ESG standards.

Job creation, fair pay, and stakeholder accountability are top demands of companies today.

Companies whose executives are more than 25% women show better ROEs than the rest of the S&P 500.

Projections for alternative (and traditional) energy sources vary greatly.

Spending on ESG data continues to increase rapidly,
as customer demand becomes more sophisticated.

Bloomberg estimates ESG assets will exceed $53 trillion globally by the 2025.

Secondary broadly syndicated loan prices have plunged during the Russia/Ukraine war.

Dropping for decades, energy’s share of the consumer wallet appears to be lifting.

Institutional investors believe that ESG factors and borrower performance work in concert.