Our purpose is to invest for a better world. This means that as well as striving to deliver great investment outcomes for our customers, we must also understand, measure and mitigate our influence on people, on animals and on the world around us.

This report summarises our ethical stewardship activities for FY24, including where we are focusing our attention and resources today and for the year ahead.

In this report we seek to show how our investments, stewardship, climate action, community support and people and culture initiatives are all governed by the principles of the Australian Ethical Charter created by our founders in 1986.

We report on the carbon emissions of our investments and operations, and how we are working towards the emissions’ reduction needed to achieve a 1.5°C temperature limit.

One important way we influence for the change we want to see in the world is through our ethical stewardship. We provide details about our stewardship activities in this report.

We seek to create grass roots and systemic impact in line with The Foundation’s core focus of addressing the climate emergency.

Sustainability is at the heart of what we do. That’s why we have structured this year’s sustainability report to reflect the key pillars of our business strategy.

The Australian Ethical Foundation’s vision is to direct as much philanthropy as possible towards the most effective solutions addressing the climate emergency.

In this report we introduced the 2040 Net Zero target for our company and private sector investments, bringing forward the 2050 target that was set in 2015.

As Australian Ethical’s 35th anniversary year, 2021 provided an opportunity to reflect on where we have come from and more importantly where we are going.