Sentences with phrase «ethical funds»

Baby Milk Action recommends that all organisations seeking donations and sponsorship put in place a transparent ethical funding policy.

Compare it to other ethical funds and to similar funds that invest in the same area, but without the ethical banner.

The story quotes Bob Walker, vice-president of Ethical Funds at Northwest & Ethical, as saying that keeping the two roles «has become standard practice, not just best practice.»

On 17 November the Standard Life UK Ethical Equity Fund won the award for best ethical fund at the Sustainable Investment Awards.

The growth of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and search for ethical funds demonstrates a clear market demand for corporate enterprise with some returns, but with an altruistic goal.

Frequently, socially responsible investing (SRI) is said to beat managed funds (see Ethical Funds Outperform - Sydney Morning Herald).

In the latest Responsible Investment Review, Nichola Marshall, Head of RI, looks at Sparinvest's latest UN PRI reporting and assessment scores, climate change considerations, new Ethical fund screening criteria and ESG in a quant fund.

Among active funds, the best known UK fund is the Liontrust UK Ethical Fund.

For instance, Eric Kirzner, Professor of Finance for Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto wrote one of the early articles on the emerging ethical fund sector back in 1986 and his view is clear.

Over 10 years, the balanced Australian Ethical fund has a 4.7 % return compared to Vanguard's 4.39 %.

See About Ethical Funds, (August 2, 2010) NEI Investments, online here.

Robert Walker, vice-president of ethical funds and ESG Services at NEI Investments, says banks are recognizing the need for fair compensation.

Last year, the vice-president of Ethical Funds, one of Enbridge's shareholders, told the Globe and Mail that First Nations opposition to the Gateway project was a clear risk to investors.

The plan, by Labour MP Graham Allen, demands that ministers match # 10 million raised from private sources, entrepreneurial foundations and ethical funds.

«Hopefully in time it will become something people are more conscious of,» Heath said, adding that community bonds are unlikely to get as much attention as «ethical funds» since advisers don't get commissions or referral fees on community bonds and many institutions aren't comfortable holding mortgages and private companies within RRSPs.

Ethical funds, in the public mind, equal feeble funds.

Ethical funds are a low - return, ineffectual way to invest your money — or so goes the common refrain.

Socially - responsible funds (or ethical funds) invest only in companies that meet the criteria of certain guidelines or beliefs.

The Ethical Funds Co. of Vancouver as well as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia and many other similar groups were all recently listed as shareholders in the world's biggest retailer.

Ethical investing assumes that somebody — an ethical fund manager, or a certain group of thinkers — knows more than lawmakers and more than the rest of us about what constitutes morality.

Every ethical fund answers those questions in different ways.

Ethical funds have been around in any number for the past 20 years or so.

So - called «ethical funds» likewise excoriate oil sands developers like Total, Syncrude and Imperial Oil, while promising investors that their money will purchase shares in «responsible» companies that don't produce fossil fuels, do nuclear power or contribute to climate change.

Choosing fossil - free funds, ethical funds, an independent financial adviser and using direct investments and crowdfunding to fund social and environmental projects.

DeSmog is a funded wing of a professional PR group Hoggan4 and Associates (who are paid to promote clients5 like David Suzuki Foundation, ethical funds, and companies that sell alternative energy sources like hydro power, hydrogen and fuel cells.)

Woods said sustainable and ethical funds could easily direct money away from such investments, and had done so and performed well, but it was not as easy for the «indexed» funds that represent the vast majority of money invested, and whose performances are ranked on a quarterly basis.