On October 25, 2017 Bloomberg Intelligence reported that “(p)ension funds’ demands for integration of long-term investment issues and asset managers’ hopes of capturing dollars from millennial and female investors are driving sustainable-investing growth. Japan is poised to power the next growth leg with its huge Government Pension Investment Fund.”
The article posits that “sustainable investors breed sustainable companies.” Demonstrating this point, it includes a graph presenting aggregate ESG disclosure scores by country (developed and emerging markets), plotting the median RobecoSAM ESG score against the median Bloomberg ESG disclosure score.
You may read the article on the Bloomberg internet site.