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Owning companies in harmful sectors, or those with poor ESG practices, has never been riskier.
By Philip Scott Updated: 14:43 BST, 19 March 2008. Please try again later. And the annual Ethical Consumerism Report from the Co-operative Bank shows the amount held in ethical personal finance products grew by 15% year on year from £11.6bn to £13.3bn. An annual fee of 45 basis points is attractive. The combined effect is institutional investors putting almost $1 in every $2 of professionally managed assets in Australia through responsible investment filters â a remarkable achievement that is pressuring companies to lift their corporate social responsibility.
Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, S&SE is a popular choice among ethical fund managers, Michaelis holds it as does Ryan, Fox, and Ted Scott, manager of the F&C Stewardship Growth fund. The number of individuals happy to invest ethically has rocketed in the past year. Emerging: Vodafone is tapping into developing markets. What next for Neil Woodford and his investors?
Ryan says: 'We like the telecommunications sector and Vodafone is our preferred stock. US legislation, which came into force in January last year, now means they will be installed in all new trucks in America, too. MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Economic prospects remain uncertain, but is a fair wind blows for Vent-Axia? Are 'cheap' bank shares an opportunity to profit or a value trap? MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Ring up a bargain as Africa moves fast in the mobile phone revolution with a little help from Airtel. At one point it was as high as 444p but brokers presently rate it as a 'buy' and Michaelis holds it in his fund. Scott says: 'It has managed so far to play out the credit crunch, it is quite defensive, it has a good yield and probably will continue to do well.' It is also one of the cleanest energy mixers in terms of carbon dioxide emissions and it is a big investor in renewable energy.
The market likes the group and has labelled it a buy. GPO Box 4545 In addition, the ETF includes companies with strong ESG ratings, giving investors the best of both worlds: exclusion of harmful sectors and inclusion of ESG exemplars.
Investors can also choose from several unlisted ethical managed funds such as Perpetual Wholesale Ethical SRI, Generation Wholesale Global Shares, AMP Capital Responsible Investment Leaders International Shares and the BT Sustainable Balanced Fund. As a utility stock, it is a classic defensive play and as such its growth is relatively pedestrian but it has a decent yield of 4% and it is very well supported – very defensive play.
We're available Monday to Friday, between 9am and 5pm AEDT. In the past 12 months Spice's share price has ranged from 400p to 672½p and brokers are currently rating this stock as a 'strong buy' according to Digital Look. The micro-cap fund manager’s performance shows why it often pays to buy shares in the company that manages the funds, rather than the funds themselves. Account is disabled. Vanishing deals are irritating, says ADRIAN LOWERY, but elderly savers reliant on call centres have it worst, Tradespeople warn Green Homes Grant applicants to be vigilant for cowboys as households have just six months to apply AND have work done, Invest in the best of British: Three new investment trusts plan to profit from a recovery - including a Buffett-inspired smaller company fund, Britain becomes a nation of savers: Amount tucked away hits a record high in lockdown as households stashed away £3 out of every £10 they could, Shoppers told they could purchase an Xbox with Smyths Toys after Klarna pre-order debacle are still in the dark a week later, RUTH SUNDERLAND: Blow for TSB customers with more branches closing as people migrate to online banking, 'Conditions for negative interest rates do NOT exist': Bank of England chief economist says don't be 'Chicken Licken' over the UK economy, BUSINESS LIVE: Rolls-Royce in £2bn rights issue; American and United Airlines to begin furlough; Tokyo Stock Exchange suffers outage, New boss faces daunting task to keep Tesco on top with online rival Ocado nipping at its heels - and now worth more, Canadians in £3bn hostile bid for 'deeply troubled G4S': Private equity-backed rival claims UK security giant needs new management, Shell to axe 9,000 jobs: Oil giant struggles with slump in demand for fuel and shift to green energy. Unlike ethical investing, which avoids broadly harmful sectors, responsible investing assesses companies on their investment and ESG merits.
The ASX-listed fund manager is a well-established, respected leader in ethical investing. It supplies electricity and gas under Southern Electric, Scottish Hydro Electric, SWALEC and Atlantic brands and has more than 7m customers. Ryan says: 'Strong demand and a limited supply makes platinum, which is used in catalytic convertors, look very attractive.' The index excludes fossil-fuel companies, alcohol, weapons, pornography, nuclear power and other sectors considered harmful.
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