SRI managers use various strategies to select companies that meet their ethical criteria, but by targeting companies that do not come up to scratch, managers themselves could act as agents for change
Although global markets have been experiencing some of the worst performance seen in the last 30 years, the conditions for increasing the assets managed in socially responsible investment funds would seem to be extremely favourable. For its part, the government has been encouraging investors to embrace the socially responsible investments (SRI) market while at the same time encouraging companies to improve their environmental and social reporting. In 2000, the pensions legislation urged all pension funds which were administered by a board of trustees to offer an SRI option to their member...
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