Analysing the ethical impact on profits

Socially responsible Investment

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) is an approach to fund management that can help predict the effect that ethical issues may have on share prices

We have long held the view that the biggest impacts on company profitability come from precisely those areas that traditional company analysis is least equipped to predict. Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) is one approach to fund management where, by dint of the fact we are looking at companies in a slightly different way, we can potentially gain an information advantage and predict either pitfalls or benefits to companies' future profitability, which in turn have an impact on share prices. Last year a number of issues, which previously might have been deemed purely ethical and of n...