Money

Issue No. 4 - February/March 2002

Australian investors seeking greener pastures

by Tony Catt

Socially responsible investing goes by many names: ethical, green, environmentally friendly or directed investments. By any name, it highlights a distinctive trait of its investors—they are concerned about more than just returns.

But its returns are by no means unimportant. In the US it has attracted $1 trillion in funds, in the UK $6 billion and in Canada, a country with a similar population to Australia, $4 billion. Yet Australians have invested just $200 million.

The prob...

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