Sentences with phrase «from ethical investors»

The de-listing signalled a lack of confidence from ethical investors in the company's sustainability strategy and performance.

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Challenger will manage the Challenger SRI fund, previously the Tyndall Ethical Balanced Investment Trust, which currently manages around $ 12 million from retail investors.

Terms like «socially responsible investing», or «ethical investing» are falling out of favour because they have moral overtones, leftover from the days when investors chose stocks based on religious or ethical criteria, for example.

Our community of 20,000 ethical and Islamic crowd - investors and donors from 25 countries provide funding for Social Housing development projects in Emerging Indonesia.

To what extent do you view your investing life as an extension of your personal life?By that I mean to what extent do the personal morals and ethical values of Tim the man govern the investing decisions of Tim the dividend growth investor?If you ask your typical dividend growth investor if they would be willing to invest in a lucrative but immoral venture, say selling child pornography or crack cocaine, the answer would probably be «absolutely not» regardless of the yield, valuation or growth prospects of the underlying venture.And yet, ask that same investor what their thoughts are about Phillip Morris and they would probably describe what a wonderful investment it is and go on about why you should own it.Do your personal morals ever come into play when buying companies, or do you compartmentalize your conscience, wall it off from the part of your brain that thinks about investments, and make your investing decisions based on the financial prospects of the company?The reason why I'm asking is that I keep identifying stocks of companies that I love from an investing perspective but despise on a human level.I can not in good conscience own any piece of Phillip Morris knowing the impact that smoking related illness has on the families of smokers.You might say that the smoker made his choice to smoke so you don't mind taking his money, but his children never made that choice and they are the ones who will suffer when he dies 20 years too soon.

In fact, the more that ethical investors succeed in pushing others away from the table, the richer the treat that's left for everybody else.

In much the same way, most investors in cigarette or alcohol companies are quite happy if ethical investors shoo people away from these companies.

At least in my experience, many ethical investors suffer from a misunderstanding of how the market works.

In short, while I may not agree with every point Burkett makes, in general, most investors would benefit from study of the ethical implications of various real estate and business techniques whether it be based on the Bible, the Koran, or other popular religious or secular teachings.

Modeled on the successful effort to get colleges, pension funds, churches, cities, and states to divest from apartheid South Africa, the groups are asking ethical investors to freeze new investments in fossil fuel companies and divest from direct ownership or commingled funds, which include public equities and corporate bonds.

True, if «ethical» investors simply remove their money from fossil fuels, the chances are that many other investors will be willing to take their place.

My biggest concern with ABS is the sort of diffusion of responsibility that has occurred in a number of corporate structures (e.g. if an ABS does an ethical wrong, but magically no lawyer there is actually responsible...) and / or undue pressure from investors, just as some firms have faced undue pressure from whale clients.

And some of his methods are questionable both from an ethical standpoint and in how realistic it is that a beginning investor not connected to the media would be able to pull them off — for example, Cramer would buy a lot of stock in a company right before writing about it in his Smart Money article, which would then drive the price higher.