There’s been much talk of big corporates speaking with forked tongues about their green credentials. The oil giants are obvious suspects, and this confirms the suspicions of many about banks with multinational fingers in many pies. Were they ever really going to put saving the planet in 30 years time over profits now, their share price and the next dividend? Any more than most governments can really think beyond the next election. “There’s always some nut job telling me about the end of the world…who cares if Miami is six meters underwater in 100 years”, said HSBC’s (probably soon to be former) Head of Responsible Investing. Hmm.
“Britain has lost 435 financial advice firms since 2022”
Headline figures, there were over 200,000 financial advisers at the end of the ’90s, there are around 30,000 now and our numbers are continuing to reduce.