As workers began to change jobs more frequently, however, they increased their demand for defined contribution retirement plans because of their portability and the more-even pattern of benefit accruals over a worker’s career. Also, many companies were attracted to these plans as a way to limit their future funding obligations for traditional defined benefit retirement plans.
Thematic investments represent a further stream of action, allocating capital to developing new technologies and enabling activities such as renewable electricity production, the improvement of  9  10  Bloomberg, “ESG by the Numbers: Sustainable Investing Set Records in 2021”. Available at: https:// www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-03/esg-by-the-numbers-sustainable-investing-setrecords-in-2021 Morningstar Manager Research, "Global Sustainable Fund Flow: Q4 2021" in review, January 31, 2022.