SEC Cracks Down On "Dubious" ESG Labels Tied To $35 Trillion In Assets

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If it wasn't already abundantly clear that ESG investing has become one of the hottest investing crazes of the new decade, Cathie Wood's announcement earlier this week that she had applied to the SEC ...

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Just days after SEC chief Gary Gensler said the SEC wanted to push asset management firms and banks to come up with more disclosures surrounding ESG funds and investments, Bloomberg is reporting that the SEC has launched yet another investigation to try and ascertain just how much of the $35 trillion ESG industry is stocked with \"dubious\" funds selling assets with little or nothing to qualify them as \"green\".\nFor several months now, the SEC has been demanding that money managers explain the standards they use for classifying funds as ESG-focused. The review is the SEC's marks the second time the agency has looked into possible ESG mislabeling since last year, a sign that the issue is \"a priority for the agency and a reason for the industry to worry about a rash of enforcement actions,\" according to Bloomberg. Back in April, the SEC released a report claiming that some investment advisors weren't doing nearly enough to ensure that their ESG \"marketing\" rang true. 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