The Chartered Financial Analyst’s UK arm is to launch what it believes is the first Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) investing qualification of its kind in the UK.

Independent financial and corporate adviser Chase de Vere has called on product providers to do more to meet a “growing demand” to provide easy access to ethical and socially-responsible investment funds in their workplace pensions.

The FCA wants better disclosure to clients on climate change issues and ‘green’ financial products.

Over 400 trustees and employers of UK pensions schemes attending the XPS Pensions Group’s annual conference last week believe they must “make a difference to climate change”, with 60% of schemes having already moved away from a traditional investment approach.