Morals, Markets & Money

Ethical, Green & Socially Responsible Investing

By Alan Lewis
Financial Times / Pearson Education
December 2002
ISBN: 0-273-65323-7
224 Pages, 5 3/4" x 8 ¾"
$87.50 Hardcover

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The first UK ethical fund was launched by Friends Provident 'Stewardship' in 1984. There are now about 44 ethical funds totaling around £3 billion in assets, involving 200,000 individual investors. The current government are actively encouraging ethical investment and looking to recommend it as a method for cleaning up markets and industry without their direct intervention.

As a result, in July 2001 the first standardized benchmark for socially responsible investment in the UK - the FTSE4Good UK Index - was launched, provoking criticisms concerning the criteria for inclusion in the index. Ethical investors, on the other hand, are driven to increase their wealth but, on the other hand, also want to satisfy their moral concerns. With the consequential restriction of portfolios why are an increasing number of investors doing this? Are people really prepared to take a financial loss in order to maintain their morals?


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