Funds for the future

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Some observers believe that ethical investment, which currently accounts for around 1% of retail investment funds in the UK, is set to become a mainstream activity. Changes are taking place in the way ethnical funds are managed and in their links with the companies whose shares they purchase for their funds. Some ethical investment is based on a long-term process of constructive management, while some is based on negative screening of company behaviour. Some investment advisors believe that those really committed to ethical investing should use fund managers who are pro-active and seek to influence companies in how they operate.

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Doing the bright thing

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Investors who are concerned about ethical or environmental issues can now choose to use the services of an ethical stockbroker, thus ensuring that their specific concerns are taken into account in the purchase of shares in particular firms. The Industrial Common Ownership Fund, which invests anywhere in the UK, issues ordinary shares paying a 6% dividend, with the money being re-lent to small businesses operating as workers' cooperatives. The Wind Fund, sponsored by Triodos Bank, has raised 2 million pounds sterling for investment in generating electricity using wind turbines and hydro-electric power.

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Take a principled position in stocks

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There has been strong growth in the ethnical and environmental funds sector in the UK since the first product of this kind was launched in 1984. The leading provider is Friends Provident, which has 1 billion pounds sterling under management in five ethical funds. Overall, the sector has more than 30 funds, which in Jan 1998 managed a total of 1.8 billion pounds sterling. There is now a wide range of financial products with an ethical content, including personal pensions, personal equity plans and mortgage endowments.

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