Information about the history of sustainable investment and the current investment market.
Diverse Investment Solutions
Diverse Investor Needs
Early Ethical Funds
Different people have different investment aims, goals and attitudes to risk, which is why there is no ‘one size fits all’ way to run sustainable, responsible and ESG funds.
Individual investors’ aims, opinions – and financial needs – vary greatly, which is why there is no single ‘perfect’ sustainable, ESG or ethical fund.
Considering the impact of where and how money is invested had been on the minds of some institutional, church and charity investors since the industrial revolution.
Early Stewardship
Growing Green
Industry Timeline
The early ethical policies of the Stewardship funds drew substantially on the religious (Methodist and Quaker) and personal values of the Stewardship Committee of Reference members and its first investors.
There is little doubt that the biggest change to the SRI (sustainable and responsible investment) world over the last 15 years has been the increasing emphasis on environmental issues.
Since the launch of the first UK ethical funds in the early 1980’s the expansion of this field has been transformational. It has grown from an idea in the minds of a few far-sighted, innovators to a dynamic, diverse, high profile investment market.
Pensions, SRI, ESG and Leadership
Pension schemes are increasingly bringing ‘sustainable, responsible and ethical’ investment considerations into their strategies and fund options.