Our free ethical investing course teaches you the fundamentals of ethical investing in Australia and equips you with the tools you need to incorporate sustainable and ESG principles into your investment portfolio.
Is ethical investing important to you?
If you care about equality, justice, the environment, society, or if you simply don’t want to be associated with or support companies that are ‘doing bad’ — you’re not alone.
Right now, thousands of companies around the world are doing the wrong thing. Companies are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the deforestation of land which supports orangutans and rare flora. Companies are mass-creating plastics that pollute our oceans. Companies are involved in exploitation or lobby politicians who rally against it.
It’s not right.
I’m guessing, if you had the choice, you wouldn’t support these companies by purchasing their products.
Here’s a good news story. Right now there are many more companies attempting to solve these real problems or simply trying to find ways to do better (e.g. reduce their carbon emissions, maintain healthy oceans, etc.). These companies are creating better products to solve new and existing problems. I reckon it’s fair to say you would buy products or services from these companies, and you would feel good about it — and heck, you might even pay a little extra!
While buying products like shampoo from sustainable companies is a great way to ‘do good’, or just ‘avoid contributing to bad’, there might be an even easier — and potentially more impactful — thing that you, me and everyone can do right now: invest in shares of ethical companies!
You might choose to take this course because you want to know how you can use your Super (something you already have), your stock brokerage account (if you have one) or simply your investments — as a force for good.
You’re asking, “How do I invest my $10,000 in ETFs, earn a profit and support good initiatives? Is that even possible?”
You may also be asking, “Is it reasonable for me to take my $100k in Super and just choose the ‘socially conscious’ option, or is there a better way?”
Finally, if you’re a little critical of financial firms (like I am), you might be saying to yourself, “How do I know if the ‘ethical’ company or investment firm is actually doing what they say they’re doing?”
As you’ll discover throughout the course, it’s relatively easy to invest according to your principles or, at least, in a sustainable way that’s guided by what society says is important.
By the end of the course, I reckon you’ll be asking yourself: ‘why wouldn’t I invest in sustainable companies?’
Not only can your investments support companies doing good — because buying their shares means you’re effectively trusting them with your money — you might earn some seriously good returns over the long run (10+ years).
What will you learn in the course?
By completing Rask’s Ethical Investing course, you will be able to:
- Determine what ethical investing is (and isn’t) — so you’re not supporting something you wouldn’t want to be
- Use your money to support good companies and initiatives — whether you have $500 or $5 million
- Know the difference between ethical investing (more positive) and socially responsible (less bad) investing, as well as impact investing
- Invest in shares of companies with high ESG standards can lead to better performance
- Start an investment strategy you can follow rain, hail or climate change
What discoveries will you make?
- How to invest ethically in shares, ETFs or managed funds
- Tens of trillions of dollars is already invested in ESG investments
- What it means to invest ethically and support things that align with your personal values, and
- How to analyse ETFs, fund managers and companies from an ESG perspective
Does this course require any prior knowledge?
This is a beginner course, but we will assume some investing basics. Please feel free to take one of our free share market investing courses, available on the All Courses page.
Ask yourself if you know the basics of…
- What the share market is (a place to sell shares/slices of businesses)
- What Super is and does (an investment account you can’t cash-in until 65+)
- How to buy shares in Australia (via your online brokerage account)
… if you know that stuff, you’re all set for this course — you’ll love learning how to invest ethically.
