• Interesting to see this thread started right back in 2006 when ethical investment wasn’t on most peoples, or investment managers, radars.
  • Now the amount of money going into ethical investing and especially Environmental Social Governance (ESG) funds is extraordinary.
  • As people here have pointed out, one person’s ethics is another’s evilness. And really, the case could be made that there is no more to be said therefore on the issue.
  • Elon though said a lot (in a few words), about all this last week when S&P global removed Tesla from their ESG index:

https://www.reuters.com/business/sus...on-2022-05-20/


  • Some of the ESG ETF’s hold huge swathes of companies like Apple and Microsoft shares, and these companies are brutal on the environment (it also could be said that Tesla is brutal in the environment).
  • Green washing seems to be the game of the moment.
  • However, given all that, personally, unless I invest according to my own ethics, I feel like a fraud.
  • This way, every which way, win, lose or approximately draw, at least I’ve reduced my cognitive dissonance