Will a drive to responsible investing cause a research headache for advisers?

Seeing through the spin

Although it already feels a long time ago now due to current events, the crisis created by Covid-19 has flipped every industry, as well as the whole global economic system, on its head and changed the way we work and do business.

Throughout the pandemic, the spotlight shone more brightly upon corporations, large and small, assessing how they dealt with the crisis - and what was acceptable behaviour in the new normal. This has continued as we have lurched to a new crisis in light of very real energy concerns, the prevalence of droughts and other natural disasters like the floods in Pakistan. For advisers and wealth managers there is now the challenge to gauge the responsible investment preferences of clients from the outset. Consumers really do not care about ESG, but they do care deeply when presented with issues...