3 Mining Stocks for ESG Investors to Watch - Investing News Network

Investors’ interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials when looking at stocks has been increasing in recent years.

ESG is one of many tools people can use when selecting companies to include in their portfolios, with ESG ratings helping investors and companies stay on top of risk issues.

There are a few companies providing ESG ratings, including Morningstar’s Sustainalytics — an independent ESG and corporate governance research, ratings and analytics firm.

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Speaking with the Investing News Network (INN), Dana Sasarean, Sustainalytics’ associate director of mining research, said ESG is quite complex, as there are multiple ways of incorporating ESG in investments.

“I can’t see any downside to looking at ESG,” Sasarean said. “Oftentimes, investors are actually overlaying this information on top of their own standards. So oftentimes, I think it’s not necessarily the end-all game, it’s almost like a validation.”

Here INN looks at three mining stocks for ESG investors to watch. These have high ESG ratings according to Sustainalytics, which looked at 117 companies within the precious metals industry and 149 companies within the diversified metals industry.

“Our approach to ESG risk rating starts with assessing a risk exposure, and then we deduct a managed risk out of that in order to reach an unmanaged risk value, this is the core of our risk...



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