The regulator's recent plan to consult on TCFD will place platforms on an equal footing with workplace pension providers and with growing consumer focus on making their money matter, proving the firm has put ESG principles into practice is more than just compliance. Attention paid now to automating the database of fund information needed for reporting will pay dividends to firms getting it right, writes Jon Dean
In a handful of years, ESG investing has come from niche "ethical investor" market segment to the must-have asset range for every investment firm. The environmental campaigning voices of Greta Thunberg and Sir David Attenborough have been bolstered by those better known in financial circles - former Bank of England governor and Goldman Sachs alumnus Mark Carney among them - while social media has created a rise in campaigning on a range of issues from employment rights through to board diversity. Now more than ever, a firm in your investment portfolio that finds itself on the wrong s...
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