November 22, 2022 – Investment managers face an expanding list of requirements around environmental, social, and governance disclosures and product transparency. Several factors are attracting regulatory attention, including country-level commitments to net-zero carbon emissions, inflows into ESG-oriented products, and accusations of greenwashing.
This Impact Brief is part of a series of research reports that focuses on the rise of regulatory efforts by policymakers to provide a framework for ESG and disclosure requirements and the probable impacts those efforts will have on the industry. It details the birth of ESG fund regulation and the efforts across the EU, U.S., and U.K. to offer regulatory templates for reporting and classification efforts around ESG investment products.
Clients of Aite-Novarica Group’s Capital Markets service can download this report.
About the Author

Adler Smith
Adler Smith is an Advisor on the Capital Markets team at Datos Insights. Adler most recently served as an analyst at Burton-Taylor International Consulting, a boutique capital markets advisory firm, where he primarily covered the financial market data and ESG data industries. Adler holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from the College of Charleston.