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Aug 2023
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Financial News - What Is Driving the Ant...

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Financial News’s ESG and careers correspondent Kristen McGachey talks with Desiree Fixler, former head of sustainability at DWS, and Tariq Fancy, founder of The Rumie Initiative and ex-BlackRock exec, about the anti-ESG backlash in the US and whether this could happen in the UK and how the industry can restore trust after greenwashing allegations. 
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