Compliance consultant Tony Catt examines some of the challenges facing advisers looking to incorporate advice on ESG investing into their client discussions.
Every day it seems to me that there are more and more people writing and talking about ESG investment. Perhaps, if there is one good thing to come out of the Covid 19 lockdown, it has been the reduction in our carbon footprint as a result of less travelling to meetings and to our places of work as we work from home and attend meetings on Teams/Zoom or Skype. The counter argument relating to our health and wellbeing is, however, for another day.
