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ethical investing

There are two main ways to ethically invest: negative screening, which involves filtering out unacceptable companies, and shareholder engagement which uses shareholder votes to influence company behaviour

Investors can choose to support companies they feel are making an effort to be green or avoid companies involved in dubious activities. More and more people are taking an interest in ethical issues, as can be deduced from the huge amount of public support and publicity generated by the Make Poverty History campaign and Bob Geldof's Live 8 concerts back in the summer. Besides third world concerns, other issues have also garnered a great deal of media attention recently, such as human rights, the use of pesticides and military force. While ethical investing means different things to different...