The natural progression for the Sustainable Disclosure Requirements (SDR) will be applying the regulation to model portfolio services (MPS), delegates at the Future of Investment Festival (4 June) heard.
Speaking during a panel on navigating the evolving fund landscape, EQ Investors head of impact investing Damien Lardoux said he hopes that MPS will eventually come under the SDR regime. "I think it's just natural progression," he told the fund selectors and financial advisers in the room. "Eventually, any product advised to clients should be within the labelling regime," he said. "That's clearly one thing that we'll be pushing for, and we've been meeting with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)." "Hopefully they will then come up with regulations," Lardoux continued. The FCA a...
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