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‘Woke’ Blue Planet-watchers drive huge demand increase for ESG funds

Alexandra Newlove, 20/05/2020

David Attenborough's Blue Planet II documentary has been credited with driving ESG fund demand

Demand for equity ‘ESG’ funds in the UK has been 17 times greater than their standard counterparts since 2017, new analysis shows.

Fund network Calastone analysed hundreds of millions of fund transactions over five years to create its FFI:ESG flow index, through which it found sharp increase in demand from Autumn 2017.

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