Finance firms’ claim to be ‘saving the world’ was a mistake, says City veteran
by Kalyeena Makortoff from on (#6YBM8)
Aberdeen chair says some asset managers may have put themselves at legal risk by exaggerating ESG role
Pension funds and institutional investors made a huge mistake" and exaggerated their role in environmental, social and government (ESG) issues to promote their products, the outgoing chair of Aberdeen Group, Douglas Flint, has said.
Flint, who has chaired the recently rebranded fund manager since 2019, said ridiculously extravagant claims" had been made by some companies, which were driven by a mindset that their job was not really about investing money: we're just jolly good people and we're saving the world".
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