INVESTORS can receive more than just a reasonable return on their money, according to a specialist who visited the Island this month.

That is the opinion of Geoff Burnand, a director of Investing for Good, a UK-based advisory firm which focuses on investment with a positive social impact and sustainable environmental change.

Mr Burnand said that socially aware investors were looking for more control over the way their money was being used, particularly in view of the ‘opaqueness’ in the markets.

‘There is a cynicism now about the way things are sold,’ he said. ‘People are saying that there has to be a better way. This is an investment model, not a charitable one. It is cerebral, not emotional. The investor knows the money will be used and that it will come back with a reasonable return.’

• Picture: Geoff Burnand, a director of Investing for Good, with Richard Sayers, managing director of Enhance Investments. Picture by Jon Guegan (00624007)