PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Andrew Tomlinson TI - Assessing the Ethical Content of Alternative Investments AID - 10.3905/joi.2008.701959 DP - 2008 Feb 29 TA - The Journal of Investing PG - 88--92 VI - 17 IP - 1 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/17/1/88.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/17/1/88.full AB - Values-based investors (like other investors) have been advised to consider alternative investments as a source of uncorrelated returns, but we lack a framework within which to assess the “values” content of such investments. The types of relationships that may exist between an investor, the instrument, and related parties are analyzed. Using this analysis, a preliminary framework is constructed to assess and rank the ethical content of traditional and nontraditional investments in the form of an ethical scoring matrixTOPICS: Real assets/alternative investments/private equity, portfolio management/multi-asset allocation, futures and forward contracts