“I think for a long time financial advisors were allowing Wall Street to dictate what products we sold to our clients,” Gitterman says. “And I would assume that, as in a lot of other industries with the reversal of from top down to bottom up, we will see the client reversal because so many people now want ESG.”
ESG, Gitterman argues, is part of an independent advisor movement. “It’s time for us to start dictating what products and investments we put in front of the client and not listening to bankers and Wall Street.”