What is responsible investment?
Responsible investment covers a diverse range of investor activity. It can be a reflection of an organisation’s values, a response to customer demand or a desire to manage investment risks related to environmental, social and governance factors.
Responsible investment includes, but is not limited to:
- Investors managing ethical funds or tailoring investment portfolios to meet the needs of particular clients
- Financial institutions who adopt a particular engagement or governance approach as part of their own corporate responsibility policy or with the aim of increasing shareholder value
- Those investors who want to make ESG considerations part of their investment valuation process
Through the provision of high quality research and the use of our EIRIS Portfolio Management (EPM) software tool, we empower investors to pursue their chosen responsible investment strategy.
Investors use the data that we provide in a variety of ways. It can be used to screen out companies involved in activities such as tobacco or arms or it can provide a gateway for engagement with a company.
Investors are able to use the EPM tool to apply their own weightings to our criteria so that they can build an investment policy that is tailored to their exact requirements.
