Top sustainable funds to invest in

Despite outflows during the first quarter, sustainable funds have outperformed their peers. We look at the advantages and considerations of investing in ESG funds and look at some of the best green and environmental investment funds available.

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While the short-term investing winds are blowing against sustainable funds, green investments still offer substantial opportunities for patient, long-term investors.

“Donald Trump’s election as US President for a second term at the end of last year, heralded a blitz of executive orders and policy changes designed to undermine what he sees as the ‘ESG agenda’ and anything supposedly ‘woke’,” said Gemma Woodward, head of responsible investment at Quilter Cheviot.

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Fund

Q1 returns

12-month returns (to 31 March 20250

Tocqueville Dividende

14.9%

13.0%

Tocqueville Value Euro

13.0%

13.7%

Ginjer Detox European Equity

11.8%

8.8%

Tocqueville Value Europe

11.0%

10.6%

Allianz Actions Euro Innovation

11.0%

11.0%

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Ticker

Fund

Performance (year)

CHGX

Stance Sustainable Beta ETF

74.11%

FGDL

Franklin Responsibly Sourced Gold ETF

43.64%

RAYD

Rayliant Quantitative Developed Market Equity ETF

20.02%

NWLG

Nuveen Winslow Large-Cap Growth ESG ETF

18.83%

EGUS

iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA Growth ETF

16.52%

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Ticker

Investment trust

Performance (year)

AEET

Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust

42.5%

DORE

Downing Renewables & Infrastructure

38.4%

ORIT

Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust

14.5%

NESF

NextEnergy Solar

8.2%

GRID

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund

8.2%

Dan McEvoy
Senior Writer

Dan is a financial journalist who, prior to joining MoneyWeek, spent five years writing for OPTO, an investment magazine focused on growth and technology stocks, ETFs and thematic investing.

Before becoming a writer, Dan spent six years working in talent acquisition in the tech sector, including for credit scoring start-up ClearScore where he first developed an interest in personal finance.

Dan studied Social Anthropology and Management at Sidney Sussex College and the Judge Business School, Cambridge University. Outside finance, he also enjoys travel writing, and has edited two published travel books.