Hay and Edinburgh forgo pragmatism in turning their backs on the Baillie Gifford fund
ow gratifying to chuck dirty money back in the face of a would-be benefactor. Such moments mark literature. Pip refusing funds from Magwitch, a convict. Will Ladislaw disdaining the charity of George Eliot’s corrupted Bulstrode. The statement is this: scruples do not belong only to the rich. There is a price at which I, too, cannot be bought.
It’s no accident that we tend to select our pariahs from among those who try to do good and slip, rather than outright villains The company seems an odd focal point, in any case, for the fight against climate change. Just 2% of its clients’ money is invested in companies that have business related to fossil fuels – which may include Tesco, for example – against a market average of 11%. A quarter, meanwhile, goes towards cleaner energy. It invested early in. This is because it specialises in longer term investments, a spokesperson tells me. Fossil fuels are not a good bet and clean energy is.
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