Repost of article originally published by Leslie P. Norton on March 26, 2020 on Barrons.com
Companies with higher environmental, social, and governance factors have outperformed the broad market since its February peak, contradicting views that the trend is just a bull-market phenomenon.
In a new report, companies with better ESG risk profiles beat those with lower ones since the S&P 500 peaked on Feb. 19, according to a report by Sara Mahaffy, U.S. equity strategist at RBC Capital Markets…
