Environmental enterprise is fast emerging as a significant investment theme. Simon Ellis, managing director, investments at Legal & General Investments, explains how to gain access.
Historically, ethical investing has focused on screening out industries deemed to be unethical. However, this negative screening approach never really caught on, and the industry moved on to funds that screened on both a negative and positive basis in order to focus investment on the best companies in each eligible industry sector. Now it seems we have seen another step change in ethical investing with investors identifying themes that provide a social and/or environmental benefit to society. At Legal & General Investments we aim to identify themes in the macro environment and ...
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