‘Clean’ Company Index Trounced Peers Over Past Decade

Sorry, Kermit. Looks like it might actually be easy to be green. An index of publicly listed US companies with over half their revenue coming from “sustainable” activities has significantly outperformed the broader market, even more so than companies with heavy ties to fossil fuels. Non-profit shareholder activist As You Sow’s Clean200 list of companies returned a gross total of 283% since it started on July 1, 2016, compared with 221% for the MSCI ACWI and 111% for the MSCI ACWI/Energy Index. “If you had ...