Document summary
Vietnam’s rapid economic growth, maturing capital markets, evolving political and regulatory frameworks and young demographics are attracting global institutional investors, helped by recent trends towards improved financial disclosure and investor relations by listed companies. However there remains a lack of available coherent information to investors in Vietnam on both complex sustainability issues, related to demographics, environmental degradation, climate change and energy and water security and specific company ESG criteria, such as community investment, emissions, water use, employee health and welfare and the diversity and independence of company boards. This information shortage continues to restrain responsible investment in the country.