Facts and Figures
At December 31st 2005, the broad UK SRI market was over £560 billion pounds (€781 billion euros).
This figure comes from the European SRI Study 2006 published by Eurosif.
The Eurosif survey, for which UKSIF collected the UK data, used broad and core categorisations. Core SRI refers to investments with negative and positive screens. Broad SRI refers to core SRI plus engagement and integration approaches and simple exclusions.
The core UK SRI market figure was over £20 billion pounds (€30.5 billion euros).
For further details of these figures, key features of the UK market and market analysis, please visit www.eurosif.org/publications/sri_studies or click here to download the UK section of the report.
Note: the next version of the Eurosif survey will be published in Autumn 2008.
Size of the UK institutional market for responsible investment
Based on the Eurosif figures, the UK institutional market for responsible investment was over £535 billion pounds at December 31st 2005.
Size of the UK green and ethical investment retail market
According to figures from EIRIS, as at 31 December 2007 there was £8.9 billion invested in Britain's green and ethical funds. There are now almost 100 green and ethical funds available to UK investors. Visit www.eiris.org for further information.
