Adrian Boulding: ESG retirement investing from a client perspective

The growing awareness of the climate emergency and a greater focus on creating a fairer, more inclusive, and equitable society accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic has led to widespread governmental and regulatory changes. Among these are the 2017 Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), publication of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). More recently, an ESG disclosure framework and fund labelling system has been laid out in the EU Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). This is now feeding th...