Sustainable Investing
Sustainable Investing is the full integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment analysis and decision making.
By combining rigorous financial analysis with equally rigorous ESG analysis, we seek to identify better-managed companies that:
- Are leaders in their industries
- Are more forward-thinking
- Are better at managing risk
- Meet positive standards of corporate responsibility
- Focus on the long term
We believe that companies with superior sustainability performance are also better long-term investments. By investing in these companies, we intend for our shareholders to benefit from their vision and their success.
ESG Matters
Articles and commentary by Julie Gorte, Ph.D, Pax World Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing.
- Shareholder Advocacy Success Stories
- The End of the Broker Vote, or the Beginnings of Democracy in America
- Data, Efficient Markets and Sustainability: Connecting the Federal Dots
- Tone Deaf: Executive Compensation and The Economy
- Avoiding a Human Trafficking Jam
- Alpha or Beta? The Financial Value of Sustainability
- Democracy in America: Corporate Proxies, the SEC, and the Corporation
- The Razor’s Edge
- The Board Whisperer
- Admission Impossible: Or, What Brilliant People Do When They Don’t Know Something
The Pax World Funds’ sustainable investing policies may inhibit the Funds’ ability to participate in certain attractive investment opportunities that otherwise would be consistent with its investment objectives and other principal investment strategies.