The continued (albeit slower) growth in sustainability- and ESG-related investing among individual investors has coincided with an increasingly heated debate about its underlying causes and consequences. Many proponents see this growth as a positive sign that more investors are taking seriously the broader set of systematic challenges and risks society faces, and aligning their investment decisions with personal values and issues they care about. Critics view this growth as the result of misleading sales and marketing and, ultimately, a distraction from what ...