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Funds on the European responsible investing (RI) market 2014-2016, by fund category

Distribution of responsible investing (RI) fund numbers in Europe in 2014 and 2016, by fund category

The data depicts the distribution of numbers of responsible investing (RI) funds in Europe in both December 2014 and December 2016, broken down by fund category. It can be seen that the share of Cross-sectoral ESG (environmental, social and governance) funds increased during this time period, reaching a share of 70% of the RI funds landscape in terms of number of funds as of December 2016.

ESG (cross-sectoral) 67.7 70
Esg (environmental) 18 17
eSg (social) 10 8
ESG (ethics) 4.3 5