The strange case of financial services and the corporate sustainability due diligence directive

‘You cannot have it both ways’

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It is time for the financial services industry to embrace, not disown, the bad within their portfolios.

From impact calculators to SDG (UN Sustainable Development Goal) assessments, the sustainable finance industry has worked tirelessly to build quantitative tools that can report the positive impact that is delivered by companies in investment portfolios. CFA Institute launches DEI code for investment sector Indeed, as set out in the Financial Conduct Authority's Sustainability Disclosure Requirements consultation paper, the ‘Enterprise Contribution' - the process of quantifying the sustainability outcomes delivered by investment assets - has become our industry's dominant way of meetin...

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