In addition to superannuation funds and ASX listed cleantech companies, managed funds with a sustainability filter exist within the ethical and socially responsible investment (SRI) space. Ethical funds use a mixture of positive and negative screens.
Australian startups building green solutions need support through your patronage. We’ve listed some of the more innovative products we’ve come across.
You can ensure that the money in your superannuation isn’t invested in mining or fossil fuel companies by moving it to one of green options we’ve found for you. These funds have also historically generated competitive market returns.
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and the Impact Management Project (IMP) have created guides for measuring, monitoring and managing the impact companies and organisations and investments in them make. Their guides and frameworks which are adopted by ethical investment funds, institutional investors and philanthropic entities, provide a very mature and comprehensive lens through which to consider how companies contribute positively to the world.
The published list of ASX companies (attempts) to apply the GIIN & IMP taxonomies and categories to help you quickly find those that are doing good.
Entries can also be filtered by market capitalisation, industry sector, key business activity keywords to help you focus on your individual areas of interest.
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A listing of known currently active (developing new projects) and inactive (previously completed or not actively developing projects) are listed.
Most of groups rely 0n investments from individuals offering commercial returns on a fixed income style basis.
