socially responsible investment

noun SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, STOCK MARKET

Definition

› [C] an investment in a company whose business is not harmful to society or the environment: FTSE4Good was established as an index of socially responsible investments.

› [U] the practice of investing in companies whose business is not harmful to society or the environment: Changes in the pension law require occupational pension funds to state their policy on socially responsible investment.

(Definition of socially responsible investment noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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