No group over the last several years has done more to expose the scam of green investing than we at Unleash Prosperity. Our annual Pension Politics report has alerted investors to which big money management firms with trillions of dollars of investment capital are playing the ESG racket and are yielding lower returns for mom and pop investors and worker pension funds. (Our 2025 report card should be out in a month or so.)

Yesterday a Wall Street Journal news analysis confirms our skepticism in the wisdom of woke investing:

Defenders of environmental, social and governance investing have mostly given up their strongest claim, that of doing well by doing good: that you can beat the market while helping improve the world. A new study finds that even their weaker financial claims don’t stand up to scrutiny…

The new research by Scientific Beta’s Giovanni Bruno, Felix Goltz and Antoine Naly looked at more than 200 ESG factors used to optimize a portfolio to balance performance and risk, and found that they offered no improvement over traditional financial factors.

If it’s maximum return on your money you’re after, you may do better buying the stocks the climate fanatics are selling!