The US Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF) is looking to glean insights from asset owners and managers for its upcoming report on US sustainable investing trends, due to be released in December. The report aims to help map the industry’s scale by offering data on the size and growth of sustainable investing, highlighting major trends including climate change, integration of sustainability or ESG characteristics, sustainability-themed and impact investing, and facilitating global comparisons. The 2024 trends report will comprise three sections: the headline numbers of sustainable investing, the trends of sustainable investing, and recommendations/call to actions for investors and policymakers. This edition marks the 30th anniversary of US SIF’s biennial trends reports, first published in 1995. Its ‘trends of sustainable investing’ section retrospectively looks at the past three decades and provides a summary of ten major patterns. “Whether you’re an asset manager, asset owner, institutional investor, or financial advisor, your firm’s sustainable investing data and your perspectives on key issues and trends are vital to developing accurate metrics and an overarching narrative for the trends report,” said Jun Han, Senior Research Manager at US SIF. “By providing your data and insights, you help create a more accurate and comprehensive picture of the sustainable investing landscape. This, in turn, benefits the entire industry by identifying emerging issues and trends, informing policy decisions, and guiding strategic investments.”
