DIY investor
Andy Davis
When it pays to do the right thing
Why do investors invest, and companies do business? To make money, obviously. It’s an answer that keeps life simple and makes it easy to tell winners from losers. But the world has never been that straightforward: investment has always involved more than just profit and loss. Great fortunes, huge companies and powerful nations were built on slavery, but society’s willingness to accept this form of institutionalised barbarism as the price of economic progress ran out long ago. The abolitionists may never have encountered the term “responsible investment,” but they surely contributed to its bloodline.