Green Funds Appeal to German Principles and Pockets

Renowned for their recycling habits, booming solar and biofuel industry and boasting one of the world’s oldest Green parties, Germans are catching on to a global trend in green and socially conscious investing.

Lured by often above-average returns, investors say interest is growing in Europe’s biggest economy for funds which invest according to environmental, ethical or social factors such as buying into solar firms or shunning the tobacco industry.
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