Fund EcoMarket
the sustainable, responsible and ethical investment information hub
the sustainable, responsible and ethical investment information hub
The ‘jargon’ used in this area is one of its least endearing features…
On the one hand it is important that those who work in the area have a vocabulary that enables them to discuss and describe their different strategies – and on the other hand – labels are of limited use if they baffle everyone!
On Fund EcoMarket we cut through this as much as we can by sticking to plain English wherever possible – however there are strategy variations and these variations lead to different investment decisions and fund managers/ investee companies relationships, so it is important that these are understood.
This video explains some of the key terms you will hear most often – and how and why they continue to evolve:
March 2019
I am delighted to be able to share our new (A4) downloadable & printable Fund EcoMarket brochure… Download via this link: FEM brochure April 2021 Final The brochure includes the following: An introduction to the Fund EcoMarket fund database tool A snapshot of the number of funds in each of our ‘SRI Styles’ A ‘filter field […]
During UKSIF’s excellent ‘Ownership Day’ event today I was delighted to hear from their keynote speaker Mark Manning of the FCA, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has formally written to Nikhil Rathi, Chief Executive of the FCA, with notification that the government now requires climate change to form part of the regulator’s […]
We have today updated our Fund EcoMarket ‘SRI Styles’ fund classifications to combine ‘Negative Ethical’ and ‘Balanced Ethical’ funds into a single style now called simply: ‘Ethical’. When we created Fund EcoMarket back in 2010 by far the largest proportion of funds in this area were referred to as ‘ethical’ – and focused significantly on […]