“I do not agree – at all – with the remarks made at last week’s FT Moral Money Summit,” wrote Noel Quinn, the chief executive of HSBC Holdings, on LinkedIn in the wake of the negative criticism of a talk given at the event by Stuart Kirk, the head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management.
“They are inconsistent with HSBC’s strategy and do not reflect the views of the senior leadership of HSBC or HSBC Asset Management.
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