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By Elliot Gulliver-Needham While the saga of Baillie Gifford and book festivals seems to have finally petered out, the fight between City asset managers and climate protesters is only just beginning. What began last year with Greta Thunberg pulling out of Edinburgh Book Festival due to Baillie Gifford’s investment in fossil fuels is now spreading further across the industry. Pressure groups are ramping up their focus on asset managers to divest from fossil fuel companies, staging protests and campaigns against anyone with money in polluting stocks. Abrdn was the movement’s most recent target o…

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