Demand for sustainable ETFs to surge

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The UK Sustainable Investment Forum (UKSIF) is predicting growing demand for sustainable ETFs.

This is a key conclusion in the report The Future of Investment: Sustainable Index Investing, released by UKSIF. The report finds that institutional and high net worth investors are "increasingly looking at sustainable indexes for both products and performance measurement." There are a number of ethical ETFs based on sustainability indices, such as the FTSE4Good and the Dow Jones Sustainability indices, as well as funds offering access to environmentally-themed sectors such as clean energy. The report says that such ETFs "can offer affordable exposure to an index in a way that can ...

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