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DAVID CHAPLIN: Can ethical investing turn bad into good?

David Chaplin
Wed, 16 Sep 2020

Ethical Investor was ahead of its time.And for a short time it lived in the same place as I did. My friend Roscoe sat across from me in the Ethical cubicle churning out issue after issue of the magazine to an enthusiastic audience of believers. I even contributed now and then.Unfortunately, while the spirit was willing, funds management marketing departments of the day were weak on ethics: it was a nice-to-have, not a need-to-have, condemning the loss-making Ethical Investor to a short but colourful existence in our Australian publishing h...

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