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Focus: SRI: Wheb: A 21st century strategy

Ethical investing has come a long way since it first emerged in the UK in the 1980s. Back then, the onus was on avoidance; people wanted to be sure that their investment funds were 'clean' and did not contain companies with any exposure to armaments, nuclear power, tobacco, animal testing, pornography etc. The lists of no-go areas grew longer and a whole industry developed to check for skeletons in the corporate closet.