Has Covid-19 changed the conversation around sustainable investing?
A look at what the impact has been on sustainable investing and what it means for the future.
Sustainable investing is not just about a company’s financial success, but how it achieves that success. The importance of considering all stakeholders is intrinsic to the approach. Those stakeholders range from employees to shareholders to wider society.
The Covid-19 pandemic has certainly focused minds on how companies treat their employees, protect their customers, and help guide their suppliers through a time of crisis.
With vaccines underway, the effects of the pandemic should – hopefully – start to fade. However, it is likely that the conversation around sustainable investing has changed for good, in many different ways.
We asked three investment experts from Schroders what the impact has been on sustainable investing and what they believe it means for the future. Their responses can be seen in the attached article.
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