GMO Log In Subscribe Contact How to Invest Europe, Middle East, Africa Search MENU ESG CAPABILITIES We believe that material ESG factors will be determinants of success of the companies and countries in which we invest, and so by integrating ESG in our investment processes we will improve our long-term client returns. Since our founding over 40 years ago, GMO’s investment approach has focused on identifying the most meaningful drivers of success and how we can use those insights to improve our returns. We consider ESG factors to be such drivers of success, and GMO investment teams incorporate ESG in differentiated ways across asset classes appropriate to their various investment styles. ESG considerations help us identify issuers who are working to address underappreciated ESG risks and, in turn, enhance their long-term profitability and command a higher premium into the future. We view accounting for material ESG issues as an evolution of “GMO Quality,” a concept we have emphasized in security analysis since the 1980s. Investment teams can leverage our own GMO ESG Score, a proprietary, bottom-up framework that assesses the ESG quality of companies through multiple lenses, with a focus on material ESG issues. Our ESG research is ongoing, and our investment integration will continue to evolve. Stewardship Collaboration Transparency SUSTAINABILITY AND RESPONSIBLE INVESTING REPORT GMO publishes an annual Sustainability and Responsible Investing Report to demonstrate how we are integrating ESG considerations in our investment approaches and how we are committed to sustainability and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Read our 2021 Sustainability and Responsible Investing Report here. GMO's ESG Capabilities RELATED READING White Papers SOVEREIGN ESG INTEGRATION By Eamon Aghdasi 11 March 2021 Insights CLIMBING THE ESG LEARNING CURVE: LESSONS LEAR... By Amit Bhartia, Binu George and Hardik Shah 04 November 2019 White Papers THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX: HOW AND WHY TO INVE... By Lucas White and Jeremy Grantham 15 April 2019 White Papers THE RACE OF OUR LIVES REVISITED By Jeremy Grantham 08 August 2018 Read More News & Insights GMO Copyright © 2021 GMO LLC. All rights reserved.GMO UK Limited Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority Registered no 4658801 England. GMO Netherlands B.V. is licensed by the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets. Privacy Notice Terms and Conditions Benchmark Disclaimers Legal & Compliance Web Fraud & Phishing Warning Home About GMO Investment Capabilities How to Invest Research Library People Careers Institutions Family Offices Consultants Intermediaries & Wealth Managers Log In Subscribe Contact How to Invest .st0{clip-path:url(#SVGID_2_);} .st1{clip-path:url(#SVGID_4_);} .st2{clip-path:url(#SVGID_6_);} .st3{clip-path:url(#SVGID_8_);} .st4{clip-path:url(#SVGID_10_);} .st5{clip-path:url(#SVGID_12_);} .st6{fill:#FFFFFF;stroke:#478976;stroke-width:0.75;stroke-miterlimit:10;} .st7{fill:#478976;} T o g et st a r t e d righ t aw a y, j u st t a p a ny pl a ce ho l d e r te x t (s u c h a s t hi s ) a nd st a r t t yp i ng t o r e pl a ce i t w i t h your o w n. T o g et st a r t e d righ t aw a y, j u st t a p a ny pl a ce ho l d e r te x t (s u c h a s t hi s ) a nd st a r t t yp i ng t o r e pl a ce i t w i t h your o w n. .cls-1{fill:#fff;stroke:#478976;stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-width:0.75px;}.cls-2{fill:#478976;} GMO is committed to maintaining safeguards reasonably designed to guard its customers’ non-public personal data, as detailed in the Privacy Notice available on GMO’s website (available here). As applicable, this includes information automatically collected from visitors to GMO’s website through the use of cookies. Some of these cookies are necessary for the operation of GMO’s website while others are used to support your experience of GMO’s website and to tailor content to you, the visitor. This cookie management tool provides you with information about the cookies that GMO uses and allows you to tailor your cookie settings. For more information about how we collect and use your data, please see our Privacy Notice Cookies Settings Accept All Cookies