Asset Managers · Sustainability

‘Green shorting’ emerges as new phenomenon in State Street study

Rick Lacaille, executive vice president and global head of ESG at State Street.

A recent study conducted by Boston-based State Street has found evidence of “green shorting”,  a phenomenon in financial markets where investors borrow shares of companies with a weak sustainability profile and sell them in the hope they can buy them back cheaper when the price declines.

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