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Should advisers treat ESG as a special case?
Beaufort Investment (Reading) director Graeme Bone sees no reason to treat ESG differently from any other factor when speaking to clients
By Amanda Newman Smith 7
th January 2021 11:00 am
Should advisers have separate conversations or fact-find questions about environmental, social and governance investing? Or are ESG funds simply one part of the broad conversation advisers have about how clients can invest their money – no more or less important than a chat about income funds or multi-asset funds, for example?
The question has become pertinent in recent years because ESG issues have increasingly become mainstream and relevant to funds with no specific ESG objectives. These days a fund manager will look at a company’s carbon footprint or how seriously it takes its governance responsibilities, not just at its ‘green’ credentials, to assess its investment potential.