Has ESG morphed to become just a box-ticking exercise?

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As more groups move to include ESG factors within their fund strategies, Baillie Gifford's director of corporate governance Marianne Harper Gow argues analysis in this area is too 'simplistic' and many processes are undermining the research effort

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