View from the top: Asset managers need to address their environmental efforts

Newton IM's CEO comments on the importance of responsible investment

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Responsible investment has been integral to Newton Investment Management's investment process since our inception in 1978.

Twenty years later, we started to run exclusions-based portfolios for some of our faith-based and charity investors, and since then, our responsible investment approach has grown to include environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration, which now plays an integral role in our investment process. Over the past 12 months, this has led us to launch a suite of sustainable investment products.  Part of being a responsible asset management firm means striving for greater gender, ethnic and socioeconomic diversity in the workplace, but we should also focus on what it means in terms of ...

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