On the obscured ESG flows in Asia
Asia soaks up more ESG capital than reported, as West books activity by funding base: Deutsche Bank's Kamran Khan
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NUMBERS still don't tell everything, when it comes to ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing - and that means the amount of ESG capital flowing into Asia could be underreported.
This was a word of caution sounded by Kamran Khan, Deutsche Bank's new head of ESG for Asia-Pacific. For one thing, investments may originate in one side of the world, with the actual funds being eventually deployed in another continent, but the reported numbers may only account where the money was raised, not where it flows to.
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