Advisers need to 'walk the walk' on ESG - lang cat roundtable

'ESG should be part of business'

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EQ Investors executive director Jeannie Boyle has told financial services professionals that they must “walk the walk” if they want to be taken seriously by their clients in terms of ESG.

Speaking at the lang cat's roundtable, ‘Crossing the ESG Horizon', on Thursday (28 January), Boyle said advisers need to look at themselves as a business and look at their own ESG impact in order to build better relationships with clients who want to build their ethical portfolio. "It's no good having a [ESG] proposition that sits on the shelf, that you get out and dust down when you get people who are interested in this sector. "You have to look at your own impact as a business and understand your place in the world and your purpose." Also speaking at the roundtable were the lang ...

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