Quants use AI to cut through murk of ‘sustainability’

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Can artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms help firms to invest more ethically? A group of quants are convinced of it.

Investing in companies aligned with one’s ethics – known as ESG for environmental, social and governance – has become a hot area, especially in trying to lure in ‘woke’ millennials. But the field is knotted in dilemmas: corporate facades of piety, gaming of the ESG label, wildly disparate scoring methods and data that is disheveled at best, nonexistent at worst.

“Historically

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