Investment Philosophy
The company offers a number of investment trust funds and superannuation with all investments guided by an Ethical Charter. The charter seeks out investments which support quality, people or the environment and seek to avoid investments which cause harm. The company is overweight in sectors like health care, energy efficiency, innovative technology and waste management and avoid sectors like mining, weapons, tobacco, logging and companies with involvement in exploitation or cruelty to animals. The Ethical Charter is commonly known as the most stringent ethical investment test in the industry.
Australian Ethical donates 10% of its company profit to Australian charitable, benevolent and conservation projects through a community grants program. In total over $1.3 million has been donated to 30 June 2012.
Ethical investment funds offer different degrees of socially responsible investing, sometimes differentiated within the industry as "deep green", "green" and "pale green" funds. According to Credit agency Standard & Poor's Australian Ethical Investment is arguably the only true green fund operating in Australia as of early 2007.
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