Financial advisers have shown a significant increase in sustainable and responsible funds since the Covid-19 pandemic.

The FCA has pushed back plans to provide a new regime for Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels.

The Financial Conduct Authority says it is concerned about weaknesses in ESG benchmarks, telling administrators in a letter that disclosures are “poor.”

Wealth manager and Financial Planner Evelyn Partners has appointed Caroline Jarvis Gee as its new head of charity business development.