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SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTING

More and more people are looking to socially responsible investing, which is an investment strategy that seeks to maximize both financial return and social good. Currently some $250 billion in assets are invested in mutual funds that screen for various socially responsible criteria. This topic tracks the trends in socially responsible investing.

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Who Will Be the Green VC Giant?more

For nearly two decades, John Doerr and Vinod Khosla worked together at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, forging...

Can 'Slow Investing' Remake America's Food Industrymore

The Slow Money Alliance, set up as a nonprofit, brings the tenets of the Slow Food movement (buying local) to finance —...

Is Responsible Investing a Must, or a Should? UNEP FI on Fiduciary Res...more

Institutional investors may have a fiduciary duty to consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors,...

Cleantech: Selfishness Sellsmore

So you bought An Inconvenient Truth on DVD. You drive a Prius. You offset your carbon footprint by seeding rainforests...

Socially responsible funds do well and do goodmore

mutual funds in the red this year, but one area that has held up better than most is socially responsible investing.

Turning Nonprofits into For-Profitsmore

New hybrid corporate structures allow nonprofits to accept private investment without diluting their missions

Socially Responsible and Green Investing: Is It Better to Make a State...more

Index Universe reported last week that Pax World filed with the SEC to launch three socially responsible investing...

NASDAQ OMX and CRD Analytics Launch New Index Tracking Corporate Susta...more

New Benchmark Tracks Companies Taking the Lead in Sustainability Performance Reporting - The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

Calvert Investmentsmore

With the spring proxy season upon us and an unprecedented financial crisis still reverberating through our lives, I’ve...

DEthics in the Pharma Businessmore

You might have heard of this already - Ely Lilly has been actively marketing drugs supposed to counteract the Alzheimer.

Can You Afford Social Responsibility?more

In recent years, social responsibility in investing took the investment world by storm. But now that the no longer...

Investors Paying Increased Attention To Climate Change | The Green Eco...more

The research shows that institutions are paying greater attention to climate change, with 75% of asset owners and over...

ETF Informationmore

4 reasons why you might want to be investing in ETFs

From Socially Responsible Investing to Sustainable Investingmore

nothing so new...SRI is explored in that way by some institutional investors...worth reading though

Diversification strategy from the Bible?more

The good old book actually has a strategy for safe and profitable investing...

Vanguard sets human-rights policymore

Vanguard Group Inc., the largest US manager of stock and bond mutual funds, has introduced criteria to determine...

Tim Harford - At last, a sensible way to measure povertymore

At last, a sensible way to measure poverty By Tim Harford Published: July 19 2008 01:24 | Last updated: July 19 2008...

10 websites for the ethical investor | Columnists | Larry MacDonaldmore

Sustainability: Not What you Think It Is | Green Businessmore

By Peter Senge - Peter Senge [This article is part of a series of interviews from the MIT Sloan Management Review...

Sustainability Equals Prosperity by Ban Ki-moonmore

Morals vs profits, a tug of war for business in Chinamore

"It's also dangerous to your future economic well-being. That is not the kind of country that you want to be...

CSR in Asia: Who is getting it done?more

CSR in Asia: Who is getting it done? The role of CSR professionals in Asia

Community-led community change.more

KLD BLOG » The Risks of Climate Change are Already Material: New Ceres...more

Investment Opportunity: Live-Saving Drug Licensingmore

This opportunity is originating from a contact of mine, Ms. Jeanette Sams-Dodd. It’s basically about a call for...

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