New opportunities for advisers Ever since Friends Provident launched their Stewardship Fund in 1984...
New opportunities for advisers Ever since Friends Provident launched their Stewardship Fund in 1984, there has been a debate about the performance of ethical funds. It has been agreed, with good reason, that ethical funds are likely to underperform the rest of the market. Given this background, it would be easy to tar climate change funds with the same brush. Yet this would be wrong, as a growing number of advisers are seeing climate change funds as a new, and interesting asset class… and as a means of differentiating themselves from other advisers. Let us look at why, and the opportuni...
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