As you’ll have heard many times, we like to think we champion ethical/sustainable/responsible/shades-of-green investments, at least to a greater extent than many others – see, if you haven’t already, my two recent YouTubes on the subject. ‘ESG’ is one of the many and various names for investments which do less harm than others, and apparently less are considering, for which read actively asking to invest, in this way. And here’s the thing: a majority of advisers still only discuss the ethical/ESG option if the subject is raised by their client, or (and I’ve heard this a few times) will raise in the ‘you’re not interested in…are you?’ Format It’s true, of course, that in the past couple of years investments which exclude oil and arms are likely to have underperformed ‘conventional’ funds. It will not, and has not been, ever thus, however. And the future is the future.
“Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation”
I suspect that many a ‘boomer’ might be pleased with the ‘problem generation’ label. When they were teen- or twenty-somethings, their parents’ generation may well have either despaired of them or worried about the world into which they were emerging as adults; it will ever be thus.