Pandemic gives 'strong opportunity' to build back better - EQ Investors

The wealth manager's 2020 Positive Impact report focuses on the opportunity to "build back better" in the post-pandemic world. It said throughout 2019 the business enhanced its impact investing standards, continued to identify how its investments support the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and "collaborated with a wide variety of stakeholders to enhance its engagement efforts". The report said economic slowdown due to the pandemic has led to record low levels of environmental pollution and more sustainable consumption patterns. "We now have the potential to rethink the path we ...