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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.

Socially Responsible Investing is part of Business Exchange, suggested by James Ledbetter. This topic contains 530 news and 178 blog items. Read updated news, blogs, and resources about Socially Responsible Investing. Find user-submitted articles and reactions on Socially Responsible Investing from like-minded professionals.

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Indian economy: Looking aheadmore

has been elaborately discussed here is the volatility of financial markets. Equities carry high risk and volatility and...

Social Investing Gathers Momentummore

Despite evidence that nearly two-thirds of 160 socially responsible mutual funds offered by member companies of the...

Social Investing Gathers Momentummore

Despite evidence that nearly two-thirds of 160 socially responsible mutual funds offered by member companies of the...

UPDATE 2-MOVES-Credit Suisse, Jefferies, Aspect Capital, GLGmore

ETFs. Draper, based in London, was previously global head of exchange traded funds at Lyxor Asset Management.

Report: Tampa's GunnAllen bought by California's Progressive Asset Man...more

been acquired by Progressive Asset Management of Oakland, Calif.   Progressive markets itself as the country's first...

Pension funds and the lure of infrastructure investingmore

were by now retired. The first half of that judgment, some lawyers claim, has been superseded by events.

Davos: Sustainability Is the New Mantramore

is the ghost of the Copenhagen conference and what it did not achieve. But to me, making businesses sustainable is as...

Pepsi's $ 200 mn investment in India for manufacturing, agrimore

million dollars in India for enhancing manufacturing, products and agricultural activities to increase its footprint in...

Sir Mervyn Pedeltymore

the late Nineties. He had recently been appointed chairman of Friends Provident Holdings after its acquisition by the...

UPDATE:SEC Votes For More Disclosure About Climate Risksmore

will ask 'the SEC to intervene and enforce,' said Peter DeSimone, the director of programs at the Social Investment...

Socially Responsible Funds Drawing Lines in the Sandmore

How socially responsible is socially responsible enough? That's the awkward question that managers across the country...

Doing Good, but Not Always Wellmore

in socially responsible funds has become increasingly popular, driven most recently by growing concern about climate...

Money Reportmore

mutual and exchange-traded funds tracked by Morningstar (MORN) shows that 65% outperformed the S&P 500 last year.

Ben & Jerry's Board Member Terry Mollner on the Sweetness of a Val...more

Yerba Mate and will be profiling businesses with a triple-bottom line agenda. As we continue to explore the socially...

WIM Asset Starts Socially Responsible Greater China Hedge Fundmore

Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- WIM Asset Management started a so- called socially responsible investment hedge fund in Hong...

Should You Own These Winners?more

Journal, of the 45 winners, there were six funds that posted double-digit returns over 2008 and 2009. The investment...

Sustainable funds drop the ethical demandsmore

AUSTRALIA'S largest superannuation fund is removing an ethical exclusion from its sustainable investment fund because...

Oil (7)more

Socially responsible investing might help you sleep better, but it's not making you rich. Topics: Energy, Mutual Funds...

Google rolls the dice in Chinamore

the Benchmark Company. Sure, brand value is one of those notoriously nebulous numbers to try and calculate.

529 Plans Offer SRI Optionsmore

(Dow Jones) A number of 529 college savings plans are adding more socially responsible investment options to their...

When Mutual Funds Get Strangemore

Next year Swiss investment boutique Naissance Capital plans to launch the Women's Leadership Fund, a mutual fund that...

GLOBAL ECONOMY: ‘Over $1 Trillion Invested in Green’more

Dr. Hazel Henderson BY J. CHANDLER IDN-InDepthNews Service TORONTO (IDN) - Private investors from industrialised and...

Green technology to be used by top firms to overhaul UK infrastructuremore

institute, which will open a research centre this year in Dagenham, east London, as part of a 24-hectare sustainable...

Iceland wants to be independent from fossil fuel despite financial cri...more

encourage a transition to using locally produced energy for transport,” says Pétur Albert Haraldsson, chairperson of...

RPT-Brazil to focus on investment, cool stimulus -Lulamore

* Lula: investment is the key for Brazil economy * Cites economic gains in past seven years SAO PAULO, Dec 22 (Reuters)...

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