ESG Risk Factors for Defense and Weapons Companies

There are 28 investment funds that have e sg in their name and have more than five % exposure by market cap, toon tional weapons. Of those a hundred and 56 companies with ties to conventional weapon systems, six have faced significant recent allegations of bribery or corruption. Some fund managers, like sweden's s c b bank has decided to s earlier bands on the investment in the defense sector stocks due to avents in ukraine. And what would be interesting is to check this data again in a couple of months to see if the invasion of ukraine by puten increased the number of funds with conventional or controversial weapons exposure.