Non ethical funds make the mark with carbon footprints

Carbon footprinting is the latest ethical criteria being used to assess how environmentally-friendly...

Carbon footprinting is the latest ethical criteria being used to assess how environmentally-friendly ethical and mainstream funds are with a report by environmental research company Trucost, Carbon Footprint Ranking of UK Investment Funds, applying the assessment to 44 portfolios from 28 different houses. While ethical funds are generally, and in many cases incorrectly, seen as producing lower returns than their mainstream counterparts, the research found that, despite the substantial choice of environmental funds available, of the ten vehicles with the lowest carbon footprints three are m...