Angelique Kalam – Manager: Sustainable Investment Practices

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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is often dismissed as a competitive investment strategy based on poor perceptions around investment returns and efficacy. In reality, this couldn’t be further from the truth. The practise seeks to develop and uplift society by investing to not only better areas of environmental, social and corporate governance as well as protecting human rights but has the dual objective of competitive financial gain. SRI is very different from other development strategies which tend to be charitable (e.g corporate social investing) in nature rather than investing. Angelique Kalam, manager of sustainable investment practices at Futuregrowth Asset Management explains to us how this works in practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
18 May 2015 7AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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