RI and PRI’s Short Histories

Will Martindale ()
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Will Martindale: Canbury

Chapter Chapter 3 in Responsible Investment, 2023, pp 23-31 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract To understand the mishmash of terms, it’s important to understand responsible investment’s shortShort history. Responsible investment has its origins in ethics. In the 1970s and 1980s, a handful of investors, often religious investors, such as the Church of England or the Quakers, or endowments of US universities, took steps to exclude companies from their portfolios that were doing business in South AfricaSouth Africa. One such example was Barclays, eventually selling its South African subsidiary in 1986 under pressure from consumers, students and investors.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44536-1_3

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