Is It Responsible To Invest In The Defense Industry?

Corporate responsibility is nowadays an integral part of the core activities of an institutional investor. The traditional method of implementing responsibility into the investment process has been negative screening, for example the exclusion of the non-responsible companies. Kari Vatanen, chief investment officer at Veritas Pension Insurance Company in Helsinki, discusses how the war in Ukraine has changed investors’ attitudes towards blacklists as a tool of responsible investing.