The International Equity Team spent 2017 ensuring that environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis was fully integrated into the investment process across all its strategies. This did not require any radical changes given the team’s philosophy of investing for the long term and always being mindful of risks to companies’ returns, but it did involve formalising the process around ESG risks and opportunities and, in particular, environmental and social factors.

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Morgan Stanley IM: Seeking Sustainability: Compounding and ESG