Leading this new movement is Bruce Davis, co-founder and joint managing director of Abundance Generation, an online investment platform that allows people to invest £5 or more in the renewable energy project of their choice.
But you can invest how much you like via an investment platform, which buy and hold the index fund for you, send you statements, let you withdraw and add money and so on.
SVX, led by the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing in Toronto, describes itself as a private investment platform built to connect impact ventures, funds and investors in order to catalyse new debt and equity investment capital.
Today the ethical investment platform Abundance launches the UK's first peer-to-peer self-invested personal pension.
It is the result of a link-up between ethical investment platform Abundance and Swindon borough council, and will allow the public to invest directly in renewable energy projects, tax free.
"Our goal is to build the No. 1 investment platform for clean energy," Mr. Parish said.
This, it seems, is where an investment platform like Ellevest comes in.
1.00pm GMT Osborne says pension funds will launch their new investment platform next year.
"It's a multi-million pound investment platform," says Pullan, "and we're not yet at the maturity of the market".
Now 31, he is well into making that his next mission, building an online solar energy investment platform that could turn ordinary Americans into mini-financiers.
Mr. Ito was appointed in December as a board member and fund adviser to Wamda, an early-stage investment platform and fund based in the United Arab Emirates.
