Standard Life research into the views of some 1,100 investors has found issues of environment dominate as factors considered important in making "Ethical" investment decisions.
Clearing of tropical forests, human rights and the manufacture and supply of ozone-depleting chemicals top the list of factors investors consider key in determining where managers of SRI funds should place their money. Additional factors surveyed included “community involvement, employment, corporate governance, positive products and services, social impact of companies, sourcing policy, alcohol, gambling, genetic engineering, intensive farming, military, pornography and adult films, tobacco, human rights and animal testing.” The survey is the 9th of its kind done by Standard Life, and ...
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