Sustainability
EQ Investors portfolios now risk profiled on Dynamic Planner
Advice firms can now benefit from EQ Investors range of solutions being risk profiled on Dynamic Planner. EQ Investors (EQ) is an award-winning B Corp discretionary fund manager focused on sustainable and impact investing and has been running sustainable portfolios since 2012. EQ offers two sustainable solutions for advisers: Positive Impact (active) and Future Leaders […]
How does our new sustainable investing questionnaire work?
By Louis Williams, Head of Psychology & Behavioural Insights Advice firms aim to optimise their clients’ investment returns. But the potential impact sustainable investing can have can be misjudged, alongside the importance clients place on returns and their sustainability preferences. As sustainable investing, as a subject, considers managing risk, doing well by doing good, reduced […]
Dynamic planner launches industry’s first psychometric sustainable investing questionnaire
Dynamic Planner is set to launch the industry’s first psychometric Sustainable Investing questionnaire. Launching on 7th May to all advice firms and clients using Dynamic Planner, the ESG investing questionnaire provides a simple, yet academically robust solution to the challenges advisers face when talking to their clients about environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and […]
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good as big ESG picture becomes clear
Sustainability and its implications for risk and for the suitability of investment portfolios is now centre stage for all parties across financial services. Environmental, social and governance factors potentially having a negative effect on the value of investments are all in the spotlight. For example, the instances of workforce standards in a company’s supply chain […]
Sustainable investing – Why it’s good to talk to clients now
What is driving growth today in sustainable investing? How can advice firms demonstrate value to their clients here? And what is making some advisers wary of talking about sustainable investing or ESG? Naomi English, Head of ESG Product Strategy at global giant MSCI, delivered a timely keynote at the 2021 Dynamic Planner Conference, answering those […]
Giving back – with Trees for Life
Rather than commission just another corporate mug or notebook for June’s Conference, we decided to donate the £1,000 budget we had set aside to Trees for Life, a charity we’ve already closely supported since November 2016.