UK asset managers face crackdown on use of ESG label


LONDON: The United Kingdom’s financial watchdog has unveiled a new framework designed to protect retail investors from misleading environmental, social and governance (ESG) claims.

The measures include an explicit anti-greenwashing rule, product labels to help investors understand a fund’s specific goals, and marketing requirements aimed at ensuring that products don’t promote a sustainability objective that doesn’t exist.

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