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[vote tags: Tracking the Vote] Ethical investing didn’t catch on in Britain until 13 years after the launch of Pax World. Twenty-five years ago this week Friends Provident, then a mutual insurance company with a strong Quaker heritage, unveiled its “Stewardship”

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