Warming to global issues

Every year there seems to be a new investment craze - something that grabs investors' imaginations a...

Every year there seems to be a new investment craze - something that grabs investors' imaginations and has them reaching for their cheque books. The interest is usually down to performance - a reasonable basis for deciding where to invest your money - but the appeal of environmental investing goes beyond the simple, 'will it or won't it make money' dynamic. Environmental investing makes you feel you are doing your part to save the world. Growing out of the ethical, or socially responsible, investing arena, environmental investing is becoming a category of its own. While ethical funds have...