Not so many years ago, you could count the number ethical investment funds available on the fingers of a yoghurt-weaver’s fingerless gloves. Now they’re being launched so regularly by so many fund managers that they have to go the extra mile to get them noticed. While I’m sure The Big Issue (which, since reading ’A Streetcat Named Bob’, highly recommended, I always buy) are happy to take their money, this smacks, Standard Aberdeen Life, or whatever you’re now called, of gimmick and bandwagon. Cynical? Moi?
“Why most won’t need to worry about IHT on pensions”
Many a government has made the point that only a minority will be affected by this or that tax change or tinker. It is, however, both perception and aspiration which are important, and they are what makes IHT the ‘most hated’ of all taxes – along with all the others, of course.
