Current ESG criteria have brought environmental and social standards into investment decisions, but its approach to democratic versus autocratic regimes needs improvement. Indeed, it is easy to unintentionally finance autocrats by letting benchmark indices shape investor portfolios, because they include stocks and bonds of countries that fare poorly in democracy rankings. 

In this webinar, Marcos Buscaglia offered practical advice on how best to add or give more weight to democratic standards in the construction of investment portfolios.