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Fund managers start to heed investors' ESG calls

Managers are realising that environmental, social and governance issues must play a part in their process if they are to win over investors

By

Elizabeth Pfeuti

Conscious of the climate: fund managers are starting to take account of calls to factor in ESG issues
Conscious of the climate: fund managers are starting to take account of calls to factor in ESG issues Photo: iStock

The best salespeople know that listening to their customers is a sure-fire way of getting them to buy.

This has hit home with fund managers, with half of those surveyed in the Financial News 2016 Asset Management CEO Survey saying they had opted to listen to their clients and take environmental, social and governance issues into account when building portfolios.

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