Why passives for ethical investing?

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Simon Ellis, managing director at Legal & General Investments, explains why passive funds offer the best way into the low carbon energy theme.

Investors today are confronted with some of the toughest market conditions experienced for several decades. The eurozone lurches from one crisis to the next without any meaningful resolution, creating huge uncertainty and denting investor confidence worldwide. Equity markets are extremely volatile. Cash gives you a negative real return. Fixed income has been a great investment over the past few years but how long will this be sustained? Gold has also been seen as refuge, but given its price volatility in recent times, this now seems more than a little misleading. Given the lack of cla...

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