Responsible investment has been given a boost by the amalgamation of the Enhanced Analytics Initiative with the UN-sponsored Principles for Responsible Investment.

The EAI has been one of the loudest voices calling for investors to pay more attention to long term and hidden risks. Set up four years ago to encourage brokers to produce more and better research on “extra-financial issues”, the EAI declared at the outset its intention to make itself obsolete by bringing these extra-financial issues into the mainstream.