Fad. Or the future? 

Sustainable investing comes in many shapes and sizes. It's about using our money to quite literally back companies that consider the environment, their staff, and general governance issues as well as the more traditional shorter-term focus on recent profits. We're thinking about the next three decades. Not just the last three months. 

• We'll guide you through the basics of sustainable investing
• Suggest a few sustainable investment options to begin with
• Expert view. We go behind the scenes with Keith Balmer, an expert on the BMO Sustainable Universal MAP fund range who explains their approach to building a sustainable fund.

2020 taught us to re-think many things. One of these was a rather 1980s view that investing sustainably means lower returns. Quite the opposite, in fact....