An alternative way to invest ethically

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Harry Kerr, of Avalon Investment Services, discusses the benefits of social, ethical and environmental investing through discretionary fund management.

Two big events shine the spotlight again on ethical and environmental investing. The first was Ethical Investment Week, and the second is COP 16, the global climate change conference in Mexico from 29 November to 10 December. This conference will be attended by the majority of the world’s leaders, and is expected to produce an agreement which will see them commit their countries to taking sufficient action to tackle climate change. This in turn will result in new and enhanced legislation that will see governments increasingly focus upon the companies’ carbon emissions, rewarding compa...

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