Widening knowledge gap thwarting take-up of impact investing funds

Research in Finance UK Responsible Investing Survey

A lack of understanding among retail intermediaries and their clients, as well as institutional investors, about impact investing is harming take-up of impact-related funds, new research has found.

The Research in Finance 2021 UK Responsible Investing Survey found that while retail intermediaries improved their understanding of impact investing when the survey was conducted in 2020, compared to a year earlier, only 3% of retail advisers think their clients have a good understanding of impact investing. The institutional survey, which canvassed 152 consultants and schemes, found that consultants believe that the pension schemes they oversee now have a worse knowledge of the concept than they did a year earlier. DFMs double down on ESG integration as client interest grows over pas...