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Passive funds to take even bigger bite of ESG amid $48bn green ETF boom

Majority of institutional investors expect a major part of their ESG holdings will be held in passive, index-tracking products over the next five years

Passive funds to take even bigger bite of ESG amid $48bn green ETF boom
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Investors have been piling cash into environmentally themed exchange traded funds, and the boom looks set to speed up amid the global pandemic.

Some 55% of institutional investors expect that the majority of their ESG holdings will be held in passive, index-tracking products over the next five years, according to Invesco.

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