Author: Steve Waygood
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This is the third in RI’s ‘The EU Action Plan: What Matters To Me’ series, providing insights from market experts on the implications of the current EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance. Today, Aviva’s Steve Waygood, who was a member of the High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance, discusses the importance of proposed changes to suitability tests and financial advice for retail investors.
The results of the recent European elections, in which Green politicians made a surprisingly strong showing, were just the latest indication that Europeans’ attitudes to environmental issues are shifting. A poll from the Pew Research Centre earlier this year found climate change was now seen as the top global threat in most European countries, trumping even the danger of ISI…