CLAIMS to sustainability have become commonplace in Singapore's fund management, distribution and advisory landscape. But a recent piece of research raises some intriguing questions, with wider implications beyond sustainable funds.
Capital Preferences, a firm specialising in profiling tools to help advisers better understand and guide their clients, has found in recent research that there is a significant gap between intention and action in the growing sustainable investment market. It found that 3 out of 4 investors were not confident that their current portfolios were aligned to their environmental, social and governance (ESG) values.
While the study is interesting in itself, it raises a wider...
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