Chinese Green Fund ESG Performance and Holdings, 2018-2024

Chinese equity and equity-oriented hybrid green funds and their top-ten A-share holdings from Q1 2018 to Q4 2024. The dataset is organized at the fund-quarter level, with firm-level information aggregated using market-value weights. It was authored by Longteng Ji and published on Harvard Dataverse, last updated on 2026-07-22.

Use Cases

• Analyze the correlation between portfolio-firm ESG performance and green fund returns based on the fund-quarter structure.
• Study the composition and weighting of top holdings in Chinese green funds over time.
• Model the impact of environmental, social, and governance factors on fund-level performance metrics.
• Benchmark the holdings and performance of different Chinese green funds from 2018 to 2024.

Strengths

• Covers 45 Chinese green funds over a 7-year period from 2018 to 2024.
• Data is aggregated to the fund-quarter level using market-value weights, providing a structured view of portfolio performance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Longteng Ji.

Collection Method

Supports empirical analysis for a study; sample covers funds and their top-ten A-share holdings.

Time Range

First quarter of 2018 to the fourth quarter of 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-22 00:11:21; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (Chinese listed firms, A-shares).