The Enron scandal and Railtrack debacle have proved just how important it is to investigate a company's socio-political and environmental performance in addition to its financial achievements
Socially responsible investment, which combines financial objectives with social, ethical and environmental issues, continues to gain ground around the world. There are now ethical or SRI funds widely marketed in the US and Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. An industry in the UK that had the backing of just a few million pounds 10 years ago now claims to represent the interests of hundreds of thousands of investors with many billions of funds under management in savings and retirement plans. Henderson Global Investors, one of a number of fund managers with teams specialising in s...
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