Sustainable Finance Assets Quadruple Since 2015 as ESG Investing Gains Momentum
The investment landscape is shifting decisively toward sustainability, with ESG-marked assets now representing $6.5 trillion—or 12%—of the $52.5 trillion in US managed assets. This marks a fourfold increase since 2015, signaling sustainable finance's arrival as a permanent sector rather than a passing trend.
Investors poured three times more capital into ESG ETFs in 2020 compared to 2019, demonstrating accelerating institutional adoption. The strategy combines traditional financial analysis with environmental, social and governance metrics to generate returns while creating measurable global impact.