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Breckinridge Capital Advisors & MIT – “Evaluating the Relationship Between ESG and Corporate Fixed Income”

By Pax World | June 30, 2016
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Breckinridge Capital Advisors and MIT Sloan School of Management, Spring 2016

ESG scores were found to be positively correlated with several measures of financial health, including risk, return on assets and leverage ratios. These positive relationships were stronger during periods of market turmoil.  ESG integration can offer downside protection to investors, and the authors expect ESG criteria to be increasingly relevant in determination of companies’ credit quality.

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