'Sustainable and Responsible Investment' has come a long way since the ethically-motivated boycotts of apartheid and the application of religiously-motivated ‘screens’. From these principled roots, the industry has developed a diverse range of intellectually-mature and globally-applicable investment strategies.
The pages below provide a basic introduction to SRI/ESG from first principles and aims to address all of the questions that newcomers to the market may have. Its back to basics’ approach also throws up a few challenging concepts for those who think they know the industry inside out.
