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An Investor's Guide to Ethical Funds A unique analysis of UK-based investment funds By: John Hancock Our price: 55 + postage Product code: 16890 ISBN: 0749441461 320 pages Format: Hb Published by: Kogan Page, 2004, 1st edition There are no reviews available for this book Description of An Investor's Guide to Ethical Funds Ethical investment has made great strides in recent years, but many professional investors and most IFAs (from whom the majority of the public still get their investment advice) remain unsure about this fast growing sector. This book helps professionals to: - Understand the ethical dimension in investment and, in particular, the economic and investment value considerations that underpin investments with an ethical and socially responsible focus - Include consideration of the ethical dimension in their ‘know your client’ process - Analyse and summarise their client’s ethical concerns and priorities and how these translate to investment considerations - Select ethical and socially responsible funds whose profiles best match their clients’ concerns and priorities Part One explains the sector in detail, looking at both the criteria whereby funds and individual companies are seen to be ethical and at the performance of the sector in comparison to the general market. Part Two is a directory of the 70 UK-based ethical funds currently listed on the EIRIS register, with full profiles of each fund showing its performance over the past 10 years or since inception and explaining the ethical criteria on which it is based. An Investor's Guide to Ethical Funds - Chapter headings Part One 1. Background and principles behind ethical and socially responsible investment funds 2. Different ethical and SRI investment approaches and models 3. Ethical/SRI funds in the context of their respective pooled investment sectors – risk and investment ratings 4. Why choosing an Ethical/SRI fund is different from selecting any other category of (non-screened) fund 5. Ethical/SRI fund performance 6. Different ways to invest in Ethical/SRI funds 7. Consideration of ethics and social responsibility in wealth management, portfolio management and financial planning processes 8. How to develop, launch and manage an ethical/SRI fund wealth/portfolio management service 9. Fund selection 10. Related ethical issues. Part Two Directory of fund management houses and ethical/SRI funds; Extended fund descriptions; Directory of sources for information on funds and related issues; Useful contacts. Published in association with Standard & Poor’s and EIRIS.

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