Ethical investing: What has changed over 25 eventful years?

ETHICAL

Sue Round, director of group investments and Amity UK fund manager at Ecclesiastical Investment Management, looks at a quarter of a century of sustained progress in thinking, transparency and engagement.

The past, they say, is a foreign country, and from today’s perspective, the world of 1988 looks very different indeed. It was, after all, the world of the Cold War and the West vs East post-war settlement that was to be swept away by the collapse of the Berlin Wall the following year. The past quarter century has witnessed more dramatic change politically, economically and technologically than the preceding 75 years put together. In 1988, mobile telephony was in its infancy, while the potential revolution that became the internet was only a nascent idea shared by a small handful of co...