Our Exclusion Framework
We exclude companies whose products or conduct preventably harm living things.
2,598 companies excluded across 14 issue categories
Full screening policy: Our exclusion criteria, methodology, and review process are documented in detail and available for public review.
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What ethical funds still hold
Percentage of screened values-aligned funds that hold at least one company we exclude, by category.
Based on 36 funds marketing themselves as ethical, sustainable, or values-aligned.
Palestine Solidarity
We exclude defense contractors supplying the IDF and firms profiting from the occupation.
Read our position →Surveillance
We exclude companies built on mass data collection, facial recognition, and government surveillance contracts. Growing regulatory risk from GDPR, the AI Act, and FTC enforcement makes this a financial position too.
Read our position →Animal Welfare
We exclude factory farming, animal testing, and animal-derived products. Thin margins, biosecurity risk, and commodity pricing with no moat. We've screened out factory farming since day one.
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What companies make and how they behave — both matter.
Many ethical screening funds rely on third-party ratings. We maintain our own screens across both dimensions.
We’re in the process of migrating legacy screening records to our current taxonomy. Some categories may be incomplete until that work is finished.