'ESG: how we spend our money is more useful than where we invest it'
Darren Cooke
Darren Cooke is an award-winning chartered financial planner who is the founder of Red Circle Financial Planning in Derbyshire. He has worked in financial services for 26 years - more than half of those as a financial planner. In 2016 he launched a campaign which led to pension cold-calling being banned.
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