Ethical investing in a profit-hungry world

Life & Faith

In a money-hungry world that's focused on profits, ethical impact investing seeks to re-introduce compassion and benevolence to our system of buying, selling and money-making.

Sam Richards is the Managing Director of Brightlight, an investment firm that seeks to do more than simply make money. Brightlight - along with a growing number of family offices and individual investors - seeks to use financial markets to improve social and environmental outcomes for real people in real communities. In this interview with Life & Faith, Sam offers us a glimpse into the world of ethical investing - its motivations, its challenges, its inner workings and its growing impact.

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Explore:

• Brightlight website
• CPX Podcast Episode: The Ethics of What We Eat
• Adam Smith’s ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’