Decatur Capital Management, Inc. believes that investing in a sustainable manner has long-term benefits for our clients and the financial performance of our portfolio stocks.

Decatur Capital’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies provide diversified exposure to equity markets combined with an ESG-weighted allocation process.

This approach offers an opportunity to invest in companies engaged in positive environmental, social, and governance behavior without sacrificing expected returns.

Our strategies accomplish these objectives by forming a risk-controlled portfolio based on a ranking methodology of the companies’ ESG characteristics.

A recent research study evaluated over 2000 academic studies and concluded that 90% of the studies indicated a positive relationship between ESG scores and a variety of corporate performance measures.

These results indicate that investors can invest in positive ESG companies without harming performance. We build on these results with our strategy by assigning more weight in our portfolio to the stocks of companies that have high scores on an external ESG ranking system. The strategy further leverages the investors’ commitment to ESG investing by voting all proxies using positive ESG standards.

Finally, our investors’ funds are even further magnified as we actively engage with other investors to create a unified impact that supports positive ESG behavior by companies.

We believe that creating a risk-controlled portfolio that favors the stocks of highly ranked ESG companies, voting investors’ shares to support ESG policies, and engaging with the broader investment community combine to provide the best opportunity for long-term investment performance and positive ESG impact for our clie