Sustainable investing
Sustainable investing is about more than returns, it’s about choices that benefit people, the planet, and your goals.
At MeDirect, you can invest in a way that’s good for you and the environment. And studies show sustainable investments can perform just as well, if not better.
Your money, your way.
Why invest sustainably?
Excluding harm – negative screening
You avoid companies that harm people or the planet, such as weapons or fossil fuel producers. This approach allows you to consciously steer your investments away from activities with negative impacts.
Improving the future - positive selection
Making a difference – active ownership
Seeing the impact – transparency
What is ESG?
ESG is a framework used to evaluate a company’s sustainability and ethical impact.
The ESG factors are:
Environmental
- Evaluates a company’s impact on the environment.
- Considers carbon emissions, waste management, pollution, and climate change.
Social
- Evaluates a company’s impact on society.
- Considers labour practices, human rights, community involvement, diversity, and customer satisfaction.
Governance
- Evaluates the company’s management and decision-making processes.
- Considers board composition, executive pay, shareholder rights, and transparency.
Interested in sustainable investing?
Sustainable Model Portfolios
At MeDirect, you can align your investments with your values by choosing one of our Sustainable Model Portfolios. Offered in collaboration with Liontrust, these portfolios are fully focused on sustainable investments.
To get started, you’ll need to select the risk profile that best suits your goals: Cautious, Balanced, or Dynamic, each designed to match different levels of risk appetite and investment objectives.
Your Sustainability Preferences
Before we offer financial advice or manage your portfolio, we’ll ask about your preferences on sustainable investing, including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors.
This helps us better understand your values and guide you toward investment options that reflect your priorities, while also supporting more responsible and sustainable finance.
These choices are based on EU rules like the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the Taxonomy Regulation and you can express them in one or more of the following ways:
- EU Taxonomy alignment – You want part of your investment to go into activities that are environmentally sustainable according to EU standards.
- Sustainable investments under SFDR – You prefer products that include a certain percentage of investments contributing to environmental or social goals, as defined in the SFDR.
- Principal adverse impacts (PAIs) – You want your investment to consider and reduce negative impacts, like pollution, poor working conditions, or carbon emissions.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How can MeDirect help me invest?
MeDirect’s team of financial advisors is available to discuss your financial goals and, based on a clear understanding of your financial situation and risk appetite, provide advice on an appropriate investment strategy.
How do I open an Investment Account?
If you are already a client of MeDirect, opening additional accounts is quick and easy. You will just need to Log In to your account via desktop or open our Mobile App, click on 'Open an Account' and follow the steps indicated on screen. All the securities that are available on our online trading platform can be traded through the app. The trading experience via the app is very similar to our online platform, so you can use whichever you prefer. All trades made via the app can be seen online, and vice versa. For an overview of trading on the app see our Mobile App User Guide. If you are not a client of MeDirect, you will need to choose Become a Client and follow the steps indicated on screen.
How do I place an order?
Once you have opened and accessed your online trading platform, you can place an order in a few different ways.
If you know the name, ticker or ISIN of the security, you can access the “Place an order” screen from your dashboard by:
- Clicking on ‘Trade’ and selecting ‘Place an order’
- Clicking on 'My Investments', selecting ‘Overview’ and click on the button ‘Invest’
You can also place orders through the search tools. This helps you search for investments and enables you to place orders, by clicking on the "Place Order" button located next to each security. The search tools can be accessed directly from the “Trade” menu or by clicking on ‘Browse products’ and selecting ‘Explore investment products’, where you can choose any one of the investment categories. You can also buy or sell securities that you already hold by clicking on ‘My investments’, selecting ‘Overview’, clicking on a security and choosing whether you would like to Buy or Sell the security from your portfolio.
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All investment decisions must be based only on the legal offering documents. The legal offering documents (Key Information Document (KID), Prospectus/Base Prospectus and annual and semi-annual reports) are available free of charge at this website and/or from the issuer’s website. Past performance is not a guarantee of future performance. If you invest you may lose some or all of the money you invest. The price of investments and any income can go down as well as up.