The Standard Life Ethical Committee

The Standard Life Ethical Committee is comprised of three individual investors in our ethical funds plus four senior managers of Standard Life and is chaired by Standard Life's Group Operations Director. It oversees the Standard Life ethical funds and meets quarterly to ensure that Standard Life's Ethical Policy is applied correctly, that the Policy continues to reflect the concerns of investors in the Ethical Funds and that the processes supporting the application of the Policy are robust. The Committee reviews all correspondence from investors and seeks to keep informed on ethical issues which are of concern to investors.

The Committee monitors ethical issues through reports from the Standard Life Investments SRI Team and presentations by organisations involved in issues of concern. For example, at its most recent meeting the Committee benefited from a presentation by a representative of Christian Aid about the organisation's report "Coming Clean: Revealing the UK's true carbon footprint".