Top 100 sustainable investment filter searches on Fund EcoMarket 2022

Top 100 filter searches on Fund EcoMarket during 2022:

The sustainable fund filter searches carried out during 2022 were once again as mixed as they have been previously – indicating that users of the Fund EcoMarket tool unsurprisingly need to consider both financial and sustainability criteria.

A number of our SRI Styles labels were again in the top 100.

Sustainability Themed lead the way, followed by Ethical and Environmentally Themed. This again, indicates the usefulness of being able to see funds grouped together by their core sustainability characteristics as a way of starting the process of matching funds to client preferences.

High level ‘Environmental and Sustainability policy…’  filter options proved very popular again, with ‘Excludes Coal, Oil and Gas Majors’ being the top individual search this year.

Armaments, Tobacco and Animal Testing exclusionary filters followed (respectively in 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th places).

These again indicate a diverse range of client interests and an emphasis on ‘exclusions’ – which we believe remain popular in retail markets because of the clarity it brings.

The highest ranking ‘positive’ filters were ‘Invests in clean energy/renewables’ (38) and ‘Aims to generate positive impacts (or ‘outcomes’)’ (48) – although these may be skewed by their being a number of impact related filter options on the site.

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Last year’s top searches were: