In Focus: Sustainable investing  

Impact trumps returns for 14% of ESG investors

"Within the last year, we've seen this huge surge of interest in net zero targets, zero solutions, how do you incorporate that into an investment solution? How do you tie decarbonisation of a portfolio to decarbonisation in the real world? That's a huge challenge.

"There are no easy answers to that, not right now. But asset managers working with asset owners, institutional investors are refining that approach and bringing some of those findings to the retail investor.

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"I think in the next 10 to 20 years, you'll see tremendous innovation. I think he will look quite different than what it looks like today. And I think regulators will have found a way to encourage that innovation without stifling it."

carmen.reichman@ft.com