Investors should assess the following policies of corporate governance:

• Code of ethics.
• Directors' oversight, monitoring, and review responsibilities.
• Management's responsibility to the board.
• Reports of directors' oversight and review of management.
• Board self assessments.
• Management performance assessments.
• Director training.

A company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk exposures are important factors to be considered for the company's long-term growth. Here are the risks:

• Legislative and regulatory risk: Risk that the government will pass new laws or regulations (e.g., emission standards.
• Legal risk: Potential for lawsuits to result from management's failure to adequately deal with one of the ESG factors.
• Reputational risk: Valuation impact of management's insufficient past attention to ESG factors.
• Operating risk: Possibility that a firm's operations will be negatively impacted by ESG factors.
• Financial risk: Risk of incurring a monetary cost due to ESG risk factors.