With more investors looking to incorporate sustainable criteria into investment strategies, Deborah Benn shines a spotlight on some of the winners of Investment Week's Environment, Ethical, Social & Governance (ESG) Investment Awards 2013, to illustrate how investors can take advantage of the increasing opportunities on offer in this space.
Best Ethical Fund: Kames Ethical Equity fund The ethical sector has come a long way since the early days when it appealed mainly to animal activists and tofu enthusiasts. Today’s ethical fund sector offers a wider choice of funds to a broader range of investors. Managed by Audrey Ryan, the Kames Ethical Equity fund avoids the trap some ethical funds fall in to by being as clear and unambiguous as possible on its ethical criteria. Kames adopts what it describes as a ‘dark green’ ethical criteria, which means it uses clearly defined screening to eliminate companies based on their act...
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