Ethical Leadership
The Ethical Leadership portfolio centers on companies that excel in principled corporate conduct, fair treatment of stakeholders, and responsible management of conflicts between business and societal interests. Guided by a Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) philosophy, it selects holdings that demonstrate integrity in navigating regulatory relationships, avoiding anti-competitive practices such as collusion and fraud, and acting decisively during crises. This portfolio offers investors an opportunity to align their capital with organizations where accountability and ethical decision-making drive everyday operations.
Portfolio insights
chevron_right- Multi-layered governance research: Rather than relying on a single data set, this portfolio cross-references official company disclosures with independently sourced insights from trade publications and online channels. This gives you a more complete picture of how companies actually behave, not just what they report.
- Ethics-first stock selection: Holdings are screened for integrity across governance areas including how they compete, manage risk, and handle regulatory challenges. Companies with significant business ethics controversies are excluded, ensuring your capital stays aligned with principled businesses.
- Systematic, rules-based precision: A quantitative framework drives all portfolio decisions, from stock selection to position sizing based on governance scores. Quarterly rebalancing keeps the portfolio aligned with its criteria, replacing guesswork with disciplined consistency.
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Socially Responsible Investing
Inception
Jul 17, 2020
Annualized return (inception)
17.30%
Portfolio risk score
Capital growth plus with a more complex portfolio or higher risk profile than broad equity markets. Investing in equities and concentrated portfolios and prepared to accept fluctuation in portfolio value.
Management fee
0.20%
Minimum investment
$100
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Performance Chart
All performance information is of the Portfolio Manager account, net of management fees.
All performance information is of the Portfolio Manager account net of management fees, and not of any investing client accounts.
Actual client returns will differ based on client-specified security exclusions, client cash flow behavior (investments and divestments), and trading restrictions placed on client accounts by brokerage.
The management fees applicable to Interactive Advisors proprietary portfolios are actually charged to
the Interactive Advisors accounts managing those portfolios, whereas the management fees applicable to
Portfolio Manager portfolios are applied retroactively as simulated fees to the Portfolio Manager account returns (as
Interactive Advisors does not manage or control these accounts) for purposes of this net-of-fees performance presentation only.
Performance, composition and volatility could vary significantly from that of the benchmark(s), which are
provided for illustrative purposes only.
This information was calculated up to May 14, 2026.
Metrics
Performance
The performance table shows the returns over various time periods, including the time periods that are clickable on the chart, calendar years and also the Since inception (annualized) performance which is the year over year growth rate of portfolio asset value.
| Last 30 days | 2.3% |
| Last 90 days | 4.9% |
| Last 365 days | 21.6% |
| Last 5 years | 67.5% |
| Since inception (Jul 17, 2020) | 153.5% |
| Since inception (annualized) | 17.3% |
| 2026 (YTD) | 10.4% |
| 2025 | 12.4% |
| 2024 | 17.3% |
| 2023 | 9.1% |
| 2022 | -4.8% |
| 2021 | 29.6% |
Risk metrics (last 365 days)
The risk metrics table is only present for portfolios with more than a 365 day track record which is needed to meaningfully compute the summary risk metrics.
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| Volatility | 16.0% |
| Sharpe ratio | 1.16 |
| Sortino ratio | 1.90 |
| Maximum drawdown | -9.8% |
| Value-at-risk (95%, 1 week) | -3.7% |
Manager
IA SRI
Interactive Advisors is an established name in the field of online investing, with a history of path-breaking work. The platform offers a variety of portfolios, including the Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) portfolios, which are managed by Interactive Advisors's Chief Investment Officer and Investment Management team.
The “Socially Responsible Investing” approach to portfolio construction is designed to invest in companies that operate businesses keeping in mind not only financial goals and profits, but also ethical and environmental concerns.
The incorporation of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors into investment decision-making is aimed at incentivizing better practices from the companies. The sustainability practices foster long-term value creation while giving investors an opportunity to align their investments with personal values.
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Disclosures
Past performance is no guarantee of future results, and all investments, including those in this portfolio, involve the risk of loss, including loss of principal and a reduction in earnings.
This portfolio was launched on Interactive Advisors on July 17, 2020. On that date, Interactive Advisors started trading its own funds in a brokerage account trading this strategy. This portfolio was opened to client investments on July 17, 2020. All performance information on this page is actual performance of the Interactive Advisors proprietary account and presented “net of fees”. The actual performance chart is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be used as the basis for making an investment decision. Actual client returns will differ.
The ESG variants of the Smart Beta and Asset Allocation Portfolios and the Socially Responsible Investing portfolios use an Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) investment strategy. Such a strategy could limit the types and number of investment opportunities available to this portfolio, lead the portfolio to underperform a portfolio without an ESG focus or with a distinct ESG focus, and result in the portfolio investing in securities or industry sectors that underperform the market as a whole or foregoing opportunities to invest in securities that might otherwise be advantageous to invest in. Interactive Advisors could also be unsuccessful in creating a portfolio investing in stocks of companies or ETFs made up of companies that exhibit positive or favorable ESG characteristics and the ETF manager (or the provider of the index the ETF seeks to track) may not succeed in selecting issuers that exhibit positive or favorable ESG characteristics in constructing the ETFs.
Additional information on the risks, conflicts of interest, applicable brokerage commissions, fractional shares, and limitations on investments and divestments associated with this portfolio can be found here and on the Forms and Agreements page.
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