It may have taken a full-blown pandemic to get us there, but the long-anticipated tipping point for ESG seems, finally, to have arrived.
Spurred on by a bout of coronavirus era soul-searching and some decent performance figures, investors have piled into ESG-friendly funds in 2020. Investment Association data shows that UK investors put a net £6.7bn into what it categorises as “responsible” open-ended funds in the first three quarters of the year alone.