Product Description

Investing in socially responsible companies is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the unit trust industry, and ethical investments are increasingly generating superior returns. This practical guide reveals the commercial and ethical logic of investing in such companies, showing the reader where to find out about ethical unit trusts and investment trusts. It also reveals how to compare these in perfomance against both peer funds and their own past performance. Based on research of the criteria, strategies and finance policies of specialists in ethical investment, this accessible book outlines how the reader can make considered decisions about both present and future investments that allow them a clear conscience as well as a high return.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1309533 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
John Hancock spent over 20 years in financial services working for Sun Life, Mondial Citibank and Hill Samuel. Since the early 1990s he has worked as an established freelance financial journalist writing for Money Management, the Financial Times, The Times and Director magazine. He also writes for corporate clients and Web sites and edits Selling Financial Services, the leading publication for independent financial advisors. John is a member of Mensa and was Ethical Investment Journalist of the Year 1999.

Customer Reviews

So how does this ethical investment thingy work?
Ethical investment has been a round for a long time, however in the last 10 years it has really taken off both sides of the Atlantic. John Hancock's book is a quick look at the fundamentals of this fast growing area of the finance industry, what are the key issues and how do ethical investment funds actually work. If you are looking for an ethical critique of the triple bottom line then you won't find it here, however if you want to see how the FT4Good index works and how ethical investment filters work in practice then this is as good a place as any to start.
This book is a basic primer for someone first approaching the subject however the very vitality of the debate means that a number of the issues have moved on substantially since this went to press.