UKSIF Mission, Values and Operating Principles
Our Mission:
UKSIF promotes responsible investment and other forms of finance that support sustainable economic development, enhance quality of life and safeguard the environment. We also seek to ensure that individual and institutional investors can reflect their values in their investments.
Our Values
- Our members are our primary stakeholders but we also recognise our wider responsibilities to civil society, the environment and future generations. We draw our strength from the expertise and contacts of our members, looking to their knowledge and skills rather than their individual or collective commercial interests.
- We believe in and seek to stimulate a healthy market in responsible finance products.
- We believe that, so long as accurate information is available, customers and the market should select preferred responsible finance strategies.
- We support transparency and effective governance and management processes within financial services. We celebrate the positive rather than criticise the negative by "naming and faming", not "naming and shaming".
Our Operating Principles
- We operate in the “co-operative space” where a critical mass of our members wish to work together to grow and develop sustainable investment and finance.
- Our core activities include providing a membership network, informing and educating the public, opinion formers, and other external audiences, and undertaking projects which advance sustainable and responsible finance.
- Our mission, values and operating principles form the framework for UKSIF’s work. We will not undertake activities which do not advance our mission and/or which are in conflict with our values.
A full version of our mission, values and operating principles is available in our Annual Review 2008-2009.
For more information on our current aims, see Strategic Aims 2007-2010. For more about us, see Board of Directors, Staff and Membership Directory. See also our Recent Publications.