Morals or hazards - what is stunting human rights investing?

Last year, studies showed that the pandemic and subsequent invasion of Ukraine had bumped social issues up the agenda of retail ESG investors, but a new report has indicated that a corresponding sharpening of those running the money's focus has not followed.   In analyses released this week, ShareAction declared asset managers to be "failing to comprehensively protect human rights" across their investment universes. The NGO found just 6% of the 77 global managers it surveyed to be excluding organisations known for abusing human rights from their portfolios, with the number only increa...