We also asked respondents to consider whether state legislators should prohibit financial service providers from considering environmental factors in state retirement funds, an issue that has been debated at the state and federal levels in recent years. Proponents of this legislation suggest that such consideration is overly political and will result in lower shareholder gains, but we found that most respondents, regardless of political affiliation, prefer to let financial service providers use their expertise to make decisions when it comes to what factors to evaluate and where to make investments.
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