Growing trend in sustainable investment

Didier von Daeniken, global head of private banking and wealth management at Standard Chartered Bank, said that while governments and multi-lateral initiatives work to provide scalable solutions to the major issues of our time, these efforts are unfortunately not enough to eliminate them.

PETALING JAYA: One of the most exciting trends to come out of wealth management in the last couple of years is the growing interest among clients to invest sustainably, and create a positive social and economic impact.

This was evident at Davos this year where sustainability was one of the biggest topics brought up by Standard Chartered’s clients as well as business and political leaders.