Hargreaves Lansdown adopts IA's responsible investment framework

The framework, launched by the IA in November, aims to provide investors with an industry-wide common language for responsible investment with clear definitions and a framework for product categorisation. Dominic Rowles, investment analyst at HL, wrote in a blog update that there is growing investor appetite for environmentally and socially aware investments, with a swathe of new products having been launched to tap into that demand. However, he added: "Each responsible investment fund does something slightly different and a wide variety of terms are used to describe their approaches....