Building adviser confidence around sustainable investing

'Advisers are important agents of change'

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Richard Gillham explores how advisers can build confidence when it comes to sustainable investment...

I was recently a speaker at the wealth and investment hub at Reset Connect, the flagship event of London Climate Action Week. This event aims to bring together a wide range of stakeholders from sustainability professionals to large corporations and policymakers, to collaborate, share learnings and action solutions. Advisers are important agents of change yet I was notably one of the few financial adviser voices out of more than 350 speakers at this event. This actually underlined one of the themes of my presentation, regarding the need not just for better sustainability education for adv...

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