(GaiaLens: London) -- Some 60 percent of the largest U.S. and Western Europe-based asset owners, which together represent assets under management of $50.7 trillion, are already building dedicated environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) portfolios; more than half (55%) are offering ESG fund options.

Yet despite this large-scale ESG-investment shift taking place, just a quarter (25%) of all asset owners have integrated ESG scoring into their existing investment-manager selection processes, and only 29 percent have made requests for all their existing investment managers to present their ESG strategies and plans to them.

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