After being considered a cottage industry for nearly four decades and now increasingly demanded by investors across developed markets, Responsible Investing (RI) and the application of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors into the investment process remain misunderstood – and, too often, mischaracterised as style over financial “substance”. Secular, societal and increasingly standardised drivers behind the systemic adoption of RI across all asset classes – along with the ascendancy of shareholder alignment as a growing movement – is clearly ev...