Economy

Friends Provident, Ecclesiastical and Aberdeen top ethical choices for advisers

Published

11 years ago

January 21, 2014

Simon Leadbetter

Friends Provident, Ecclesiastical and Aberdeen are the most popular fund managers for financial advisers giving advice to clients on ethical investment, according to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Voice of the Adviser survey.

Both Friends Provident and Ecclesiastical not only made it into the top three for choice, but also appeared on the table of fastest-rising choices, with 17% and 16% growth year on year respectively.

Other fast growers were Premier, Quilter Cheviot and WHEB.

In the annual Voice of the Adviser survey, advisers are asked to select all the asset managers they put in front of their clients as a sustainable, responsible or ethical choice. Fund performance and management has a material effect on adviser recommendation, so any endorsement is a useful barometer on favoured funds.

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Simon Leadbetter is the founder and publisher of Blue & Green Tomorrow. He has held senior roles at Northcliffe, The Daily Telegraph, Santander, Barclaycard, AXA, Prudential and Fidelity. In 2004, he founded a marketing agency that worked amongst others with The Guardian, Vodafone, E.On and Liverpool Victoria. He sold this agency in 2006 and as Chief Marketing Officer for two VC-backed start-ups launched the online platform Cleantech Intelligence (which underpinned the The Guardian’s Cleantech 100) and StrategyEye Cleantech. Most recently, he was Marketing Director of Emap, the UK’s largest B2B publisher, and the founder of Blue & Green Communications Limited.