Ethinvest Sustainability - SustainabilityTracker.com

Sustainability Summary

This is an unclaimed profile. Ethinvest has not joined Sustainability Tracker to verify their sustainability credentials. We gathered what we could from public sources.

What do our labels mean?

Ethinvest is referenced in responsible investment and ESG contexts, including as part of the founding history of the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). The available content links the brand to the development of responsible investing in Australia, including early advocacy for disclosure of environmental, social and labour-related issues and the broader use of ESG integration, corporate engagement and voting. The material also places Ethinvest within a network of responsible investment practitioners and industry initiatives focused on aligning capital with environmental, social and governance outcomes.

About Ethinvest

Status
Unverified

Website
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Employees
5 - 25

Country
Australia

Ethinvest Sustainability Actions

Founding role in RIAA

RIAA was originally called Ethical Investing Association (EIA) when it formed in 2000. The organisation was founded by a group of concerned investors – led by financial advisors – who recognised the powerful impact that conscious investors could have by steering their capital towards companies that were aligned with their values. Ross Knowles (Ethinvest) from Sydney and Janice Carpenter (formerly Ethical Investment Services) from Melbourne were founding co-Presidents.

Early ESG disclosure lobbying

We lobbied government to get fund managers to disclose environmental, social and labour related issues (an early iteration of ESG integration). This work was successful and this remains law in Australia, enforced by ASIC.

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Responsible investment benchmarking

Our first benchmarking report came out in 2002 and has been published every year since and expanded into a distinct report for New Zealand.

Responsible Investment Certification

In 2005 we established a Responsible Investment Certification Program that is world-leading, and the longest running accreditation program of its kind. It is the leading initiative for distinguishing quality responsible, ethical and impact investment products and services in Australia and New Zealand and provides confidence that a product or provider is delivering on its responsible investment promise and meeting the Australian and New Zealand Standard for responsible investing.