What are ‘Ethicals’?

People are becoming more and more concerned over the Social, Environmental and Ethical issues that confront our world today. Subjects as diverse as environmental improvement, global warming, genetically modified foods, gambling and the destruction of the rain forests are increasingly on people’s minds these days and there are many ways in which you can choose to actively support or avoid these causes through everyday activities such as buying organic food, donating to particular charities, recycling and monitoring your carbon foot-print. These choices virtually always involve you making a financial decision – usually ‘how to spend?’ However, there are now rapidly increasing ethical choices you can make about all of your finances, from your savings and investments to your insurances and even your mortgage.

If you have concerns that the companies in which you invest might be exploiting Third World countries or damaging the environment, or if you have concerns that you might be inadvertently supporting company activities that you don’t approve of then you may want to find out more about ethical investment, also known as Socially Responsible Investment (SRI). Finansec Green specialises in holistic financial planning where your ethical values and beliefs are of fundamental importance to the advice we give.