Deutsche Bank’s DWS Sees Jump in Pensions Demand: ESG Regulation

The asset-management arm of Deutsche Bank AG says it’s seeing a clear jump in demand for ESG services from institutional investors, amid growing regulatory pressure to screen for environmental, social and governance risks.

Over the past year, there’s been an increase in the extent to which pension funds have expressed a desire to “talk about ESG and to invest in ESG products, and even to consider ESG risk in their investments,” Dennis Haensel, the head of ESG advisory at DWS Group, said in an interview.