Responsible investing more than just negative screening

By Rebekah Swan

It’s great to see that more and more New Zealanders are embracing the concept of responsible investing, with record growth in this type of investment over the past year. This is the finding of the latest Benchmark Report released by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) which showed ‘core’ responsible investment in New Zealand increased from $1.6 billion in 2015 to $42.7 billion at the end of 2016.

Simon O’Connor, CEO of RIAA, also shared some Morningstar data which showed that sustainable investment globally has increased from $18 trillion to $23 trillion between 2014 and 2016. That means around a quarter of all professionally managed assets globally are done so with some form of sustainable focus. Click here to read more.