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FactSet looks at environmental investment performance with FTSE
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Will Oulton, Director of Responsible Investing at FTSE, gives his final comments on the environmental investing markets, including a discussion of how the markets performed during the recession and how investors are treating allocations towards environmentally friendly companies.
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In FactSet's most recent podcast episode, we discussed the performance of the environmental markets with Will Oulton of FTSE. Will helped to define the how the markets are performinig according to sector, and how those trends changed in 2008. He also expands on how investors are viewing allocations towards environmentally sound stocks, as long term or short term, part of an overall investment prospectus or a specialty.
Will commented on the growth and interest that FTSE has seen specific to looking at companies in the Environmental Markets Index,
"As we look at the broad FTSE sustainable and environmental investment portfolio today we have around $25 billion linked in various products and firms to those indices. Around 10 [billion dollars] of that is in the sort of social ethical index series and around 10 is in the broad integrated sustainability indices and just around under $3 billion is in the environmental markets indices. But it's the environmental markets indices that [are] growing the most. It is the one that we are getting asked to talk to the global client base about the most...."
Listen to our podcast to hear the entire conversation, including Will's thoughts on the types of investment perpsectives for these opportunities, how market interest and market movement differ in the case of these environmental investments, and more. Subscribe to our podcast in iTunes to gain access to each new episode as it is available.
