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ESG

How ESG monitoring of corporates complements investment research

Jessica Ground Eimear Toomey Sarah Murphy

10 July 2025

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Our corporate monitoring process is designed to identify issuers among our equity and corporate bond holdings for further research and review of potentially material ESG risks.
  • We use scores and indicators from third-party ESG data providers to help flag issuers that present potentially elevated ESG risks across five criteria.
  • By supporting awareness among our investment professionals of external views of elevated ESG risks, monitoring complements their investment research and analysis while also encouraging objectivity in our ESG integration process.
  • Investment decisions are based on a long-term view, engagement and analysis – never on monitoring alone.

Monitoring for material ESG risks

Explore how we complement our investment research with a proprietary approach to corporate monitoring.

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Jessica Ground is global head of ESG at Capital Group. She has 26 years of industry experience (as of 12/31/2023). She holds a bachelor's degree in history from Bristol University and is a member of the CFA Institute.

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Eimear Toomey is head of ESG client & stakeholder engagement with 18 years of industry experience (as of 12/31/2023). She holds a master's degree in international business and management from Manchester Business School and a bachelor's degree from University College Cork. 

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Sarah Murphy is an ESG specialist at Capital Group. She has 11 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for two years. Prior to joining Capital, Sarah worked as a vice president in equity research product management at Jefferies in New York and London. Before that, she was an analyst in risk management for the structured equity derivatives trading desk at Barclays in New York. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from Northeastern University. She also holds a CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing and an ACCA/CFA Climate Finance Certificate. Sarah is based in London.

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