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"There was no such things as an ethical fund in France at the time.

Ethical funds are subject to demand that is based on the inherent values of respective social groups.

The report surveyed the majority of ethical fund providers and ranked them according to their "responsibility rating".

The report found many ethical funds to be using 'outdated' screening methods which do not reflect customers' views.

Savers can open conventional savings accounts, as well as ethical funds and venture capital.

'Most ethical funds hold oil companies'

Pensions On the pensions front, the trustees of the staff pension fund agreed in principle to offer employees the opportunity to invest in ethical funds.

Unlike other ethical funds, however, it does not reject defense companies, alcohol or tobacco (other common SRI-screened areas).

"Ethical funds will stop accepting new money as soon as their money manager runs out of ideas for new companies to invest in," Mr. Kiplinger said.

Margrit manages our portfolio of investments along with my advisers and I know she has chosen to invest in a lot of ethical companies and ethical funds.

In December 2012 ShareAction published its report 'Ethically Engaged: A survey of UK ethical funds'.

CanDo4Kids is an affiliated with Charity Direct, an organisation that promotes ethical fund raising behaviour, which means that every dollar donated goes directly to helping the kids.

The report also found that 45% of ethical funds do not disclose their full holdings and that many funds fail to engage on ethical issues with companies in which they invest.

Even the ethical fund ETIF, which was among the balanced instruments the best performers in 2003, was dismissed by order of AEI and subscribers were repaid (with margins).

This includes the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Marlborough Ethical Fund, Millfield House Foundation and PGGM.

In addition, the Bank set up APS Funds Sicav plc in 2008 both to diversify services and also to introduce the selling of ethical funds in the Maltese Islands.

More than 1,000 individuals and some 1,000 organizations participate annually in courses and workshops offered by the Center's Fund Raising School, the only national university-based fund raising training program with an international reputation for helping organizations become leaders in ethical fund raising.

Lee Coates, the proprietor of Fimbra-member, the Ethical Investors Group (0242 522872), which claims to be the only UK investment adviser dealing exclusively in green and ethical funds, says that only seven are likely to match all the ethical or green criteria investors may have.

In December 2010, The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) announced their accreditation of ATS based on the ECFA Seven Standards of Responsible Stewardship , including financial accountability, transparency, sound board governance and ethical fund raising.