Adviser Focus: Jeremy Newbegin, The Ethical Partnership

While it was his faith that saw Jeremy Newbegin, director of The Ethical Partnership, focus on ethical investment, he is under no illusion that investor pragmatism will play a large part in the growth of the ethical and environmental investment market. Take the example of Keith Clarke, chief executive of WS Atkins, Britain’s biggest engineering and design consultancy. Clarke is well known for his views on reducing both the company’s and his own impact on the environment, believing a low carbon world is essential for the human race’s survival. Yet in a recent report in The Times, Clarke a...