Bond investors get serious on ESG — and issuers respond

Five years ago, if you asked a bond fund manager about ethical investing, the answer might have been ‘oh, that’s for the equity people’. You would not hear that today. Market forums on integrating environmental, social and governance analysis into bond investing are proliferating. As Craig McGlashan reports, it is leading to a much richer dialogue between investors and issuers — and to the growth of a whole new bond market.