Ethinvest's Community Impact Foundation (CIF) has just reached a major milestone! Through the generosity of our 77 giving clients, the CIF now has $35 million ethically invested funds in its corpus, and growing. This has allowed our CIF clients to donate an impressive $3.8 million last financial year to more than 250 Australian charities doing great work on issues including climate change and conservation, First Nations justice and advocating for children and refugees. For t

Please join Ethinvest for a free webinar on 18 September, 1 pm , with Mary Gaitho of the aid organisation Tearfund and Michelle Higelin...

In a judgment poised to reverberate through international diplomacy and environmental law, the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its long-awaited advisory opinion on climate change in a case brought by Pacific law students, declaring that nations have binding legal obligations under international law to combat greenhouse gas emissions.

In the face of rising instances of greenwashing in products and financial services, it pays to think critically about the green claims of companies before buying. Here’s how to spot some of the most common false greenwashing claims. Between April 2023 and June 2024, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) reported 791 documented interventions targeting misleading environmental, social and governance (ESG) claims and investment misalignments with disclosed

In a recent LinkedIn feature, our amazing adviser Fiona Thomas discussed how the HUB24 platform helps bring ethical investing to life...

Online investment advice searchers take note! The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued warning notices to 18 social media ‘finfluencers’ suspected of unlawfully promoting high-risk financial products and providing unlicensed financial advice to Australians as part of a Global Week of Action Against Unlawful “Finfluencers” by nine international market regulators. ASIC and regulators from the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Italy, Hong Kong a

A recent letter to Barefoot Investor guru Scott Pape and his response really struck a chord with the Ethinvest team when we discovered few of us had set up our phones and computers to ensure our loved ones can access our information, photos, accounts and diaries should the worst happen. We hope he won’t mind us sharing it with you so you and those you know can follow this excellent “how to” advice. Hi Scott, Our 26-year-old son James died of an accidental drug overdose last S

Ethinvest has been named one of six finalists in the Endowments for Impact Challenge and will present our investment proposal to Australia’s leading philanthropic trusts and foundations seeking advice for a combined pool of $170 million as part of this year’s Impact Investment Summit at the Sydney Convention Centre. The Challenge is a collective, public tender competition initiated by six of Australia’s leading trusts and foundations to identify and promote investment advi

Matthew Moore - Ethinvest General Manager Ethinvest has appointed Matthew Moore as our new General Manager to strengthen our leadership team to meet growing demand for true-to-label ethical and impact investments. Moore is an industry leader bringing extensive experience in ethical investing, fund development and portfolio management who has managed portfolios of up to $1.6 billion at Uniting Financial Services and led the $30 billion in assets at Australian Unity Wealth and

Ethinvest’s Managed Portfolio Service (MPS) has just hit $100 million, propelling total Funds Under Management to $1.3b for the first...