Inbrief

The proportion of investment institutions paying commission to analysts to encourage them to provide more information on socially responsible investment has increased significantly in the past two years. New figures from an annual survey by financial research company Thomson Extel show that half of the 140 European investors questioned now attribute two per cent or more of their total commission spend to SRI. In 2005, the proportion was only one in ten. Thomson Financial rated Citi Investment Research as the best sell-side analyst on SRI research.