{"id":1510,"date":"2017-10-21T11:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2017-10-18T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T16:52:26","slug":"esg-portfolios-can-outperform-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"ESG Portfolios Can Outperform Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pink_piggy_bank250x250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-974\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pink_piggy_bank250x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pink_piggy_bank250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pink_piggy_bank250x250-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>When investing, do you consider\u00a0the company&#8217;s impact on the environment, production of harmful products, or questionable business practices? \u00a0Many would prefer to support groups with a positive mission but often feel that the returns are greater from so-called, &#8220;bad boy&#8221; companies. \u00a0This may not be true. \u00a0Chris Tomlinson for the Houston Chronicle sites financial data from two firms showing that focusing on ESG (environmental, social and governance factors), portfolios can actually outperform those loaded with stocks from corporations known for\u00a0their cavalier business practices.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/business\/columnists\/tomlinson\/article\/Responsible-corporations-can-generate-big-returns-11720260.php\">Good returns don&#8217;t require &#8216;bad&#8217; investments<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When investing, do you consider\u00a0the company&#8217;s impact on the environment, production of harmful products, or questionable business practices? \u00a0Many would prefer to support groups with a positive mission but often feel that the returns are greater from so-called, &#8220;bad boy&#8221; companies. \u00a0This may not be true. \u00a0Chris Tomlinson for the Houston Chronicle sites financial data &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1510\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ESG Portfolios Can Outperform Tradition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1049,1048,1053,1052,1051,1055,1050,1057,96,1056,1054,1047],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","tag-bad-boy-corporations","tag-bonds","tag-environmental","tag-esg","tag-good-investing","tag-governance-factors","tag-houston-chronicle","tag-investements","tag-money","tag-returns","tag-social","tag-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}