Abstract
Investors in financial securities are increasingly taking ethical, social and environmental matters into consideration in addition to the financial evaluation of potential and current investment objects. The number of ethical funds and sustainability indexes has increased explosively since the 1990s; in the early 1980s there were four ethical funds in Europe, today there are 313. The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse actors involved in socially and environmentally responsible investing (SRI), and to identify, map and compare indexes and methods that currently are available on the SRI market.