ClearBridge Investments

The recent focus of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on better quality, more comprehensive reporting on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) standards is a welcome development, particularly as investor interest in ESG products continues to grow rapidly.

Although many companies in consumer-oriented industries continue to struggle, others have benefitted from society’s need to socially distance. Discussed here are five stocks that have successfully accelerated digital adoption through the pandemic along with three in hard-hit categories poised to thrive once coronavirus inoculations become widespread.

The so-called “Trade War” between the United States and China has US investors scrambling for a new answer, and it may just lie in China’s consumer-friendly, high-growth opportunity market. But is there enough upside to make the volatile risk more worthwhile?