Ethical investing: every little helps

Ethical investors of the World unite! You have nothing to lose but the shackles of your guilty consciences.....

The debate that took place in Westminster recently – when advisers at an F&C conference questioned the ethical integrity of its Stewardship Growth fund’s holding of Tesco among its top 10 shares – raised some questions about the subjectivity of selection criteria within the ethical universe. Also discussed at this conference was nuclear power and this raised even more interesting issues that go to right the heart of both ethical and green investment. Over the past decade, nuclear power has undergone a makeover. The perception of the nuclear industry as dirty and unsafe has been all but r...