{"id":2049,"date":"2019-11-05T23:03:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T23:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2020-01-14T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T10:40:05","slug":"the-ethical-funds-that-plough-your-cash-into-tanks-tobacco-and-big-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/the-ethical-funds-that-plough-your-cash-into-tanks-tobacco-and-big-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The \u2018ethical\u2019 funds that plough your cash into tanks, tobacco and Big Oil&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently questioned whether \u2018big Pharma\u2019 companies such as Glaxo were ethical enough to be in ethical funds. Clients\u2019 perception, I said, was that they charge too much for drugs, have dodgy testing policies and pay big bucks to political parties. The counter argument from ethical fund managers is that they do a lot of research and save lives. And now we hear that some \u2018ethical\u2019 funds include all the stuff that ethical investors are trying to avoid, like guns, fags, booze and fossil fuels, simply<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>because the companies look after their employees well and meet other \u2018ethical\u2019 criteria. Managers, get your acts together, or the regulator will do it for you. And clients wanting to invest ethically, talk to an adviser\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/money\/the-ethical-funds-that-plough-your-cash-into-tanks-tobacco-and-big-oil-h9ftbrl6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.professionaladviser.com\/professional-adviser\/news\/3083348\/ethical-funds-ploughing-money-into-big-oil-three-things-your-clients-may-call-you-about-this-week?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_campaign=IFA.SP.AM_Update_RL.EU.A.U&amp;utm_source=PA.DCM.Editors_Updates&amp;utm_term=&amp;im_company=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Sole%20Trader&amp;im_edp=397942-d4582b57481a0161%26campaignname%3DIFA.SP.AM_Update_RL.EU.A.U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently questioned whether \u2018big Pharma\u2019 companies such as Glaxo were ethical enough to be in ethical funds. Clients\u2019 perception, I said, was that they charge too much for drugs, have dodgy testing policies and pay big bucks to political parties. The counter argument from ethical fund managers is that they do a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[571,4],"tags":[34,35],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjamesfs.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}