Anne Richards, chief executive of Fidelity International, has said her company has “a lot of work to do” to bring itself up to the same environmental, social and corporate governance standards it asks of the companies it invests in.

Speaking at the annual conference run by the CFA Institute, the investment professionals’ association, on May 14, Richards told Francesco Guerrera, publisher of Financial News: “We should be holding ourselves to the same standards that we are holding the investments we make to.”