Marking five years since the launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), MSCI ESG Research looked at the progress publicly traded companies have made toward aligning their products and operations with these global standards.

Improvements in ESG risk-mitigation practices have been mixed among issuers in Latin America and other emerging markets over the past decade.

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Factors have been shown to be important systematic sources of risk and return. We examine how factor analysis can help identify investment characteristics that lie beneath the surface of seemingly similar stocks and equity portfolios.