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[RiskMetrics ESG Insight Blog] Responsible Investments to be 15% of Global Assets by 2015: New ...: "Eurosif continues to segment the SRI market with Core SRI estimated at €512 billion and Broad SRI at €2.154 trillion. Core SRI consists of elaborated screening strategies systematically impacting portfolio construction and often implying a values-based approach while Broad SRI partly represents the mainstreaming of SRI and the growing interest of responsible investors, particularly large institutional investors, in this area."

[Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News] Social Investment Forum: Two Thirds of Socially Responsible Mutual ...: Although a company's environmental impact is a core focus of our SRI research, we also recognize that there are a variety of other related factors that can influence performance. In particular, we have expanded our research to review a company's corporate governance profile, because we recognize the influence that governance practices can have on company performance.

[ETF Trends] Why Socially Responsible ETFs Are Gaining In Popularity | ETF Trends: According to the Social Investment Forum, socially responsible investing (SRI) or environment, sustainability and governance screens (ESG), is expanding faster than the broader universe of all investment assets under management. Almost one of every nine dollars in management .

[Research Blog by ValueNotes (India)] Expanding frontiers of investment management and research ...: Some of the most popular SRI or sustainability indices are the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), the FTSE4Good Index, and the DAX global Sarasin Sustainability Index. These indices track the performance of companies globally whose core business is in the development and deployment of environmental technologies, including renewable and alternative energy, energy efficiency, and water technology and waste &

[Marlboro College Graduate School] SRI - How Much Is Enough?: Since their early beginnings, SRI funds have served the purpose of helping individuals and organizations to invest their money in ways that align with their values, hence the long history of funds that do not invest in weapons manufacturers and tobacco and alcoholic drink producers, for instance, or in countries such as apartheid-era South Africa that institutionalize human rights abuses.  This is presumably an accurate description of the motivations of most SRI investors today, and is justified by the principle that, in a free society, people should be able to choose to “put their money where their mouths are.”  A less obvious assumption accompanying this is that some people - typically a minority - are willing to accept some of their return on investment as non-monetary, psychic or ethical value, whereas most investors maximize their monetary returns on invested funds and do not limit their portfolios to securities that pass social or sustainability screens.  The currently small fraction of total invested funds accounted for by SRI would seem to bear this out.

[BrilliantWithMoney] It's not easy being green: socially responsible investing: More than £7 billion is currently invested in green and ethical funds in the UK, up from £1.5 billion just ten years ago. Some new research by Co-Operative Investments found that 18% of investors plan to invest ethically this year.

[ResourcesForLife.com] Socially Responsible Green Eco Investing - SRI Advantage - CREF ...: The social and environmental impact of corporate activities related to the production and sale of alcohol, tobacco, military weapons, firearms, nuclear power and gambling products and services are quantified and incorporated into a company’s overall ESG performance assessment. While not automatically excluded from KLD’s indices or the Account, most companies involved in these industries are ineligible for inclusion in the Account due to their poor overall ESG performance relative to their industry sector peers.

[Eurekahedge: Hedge Fund Manager Interviews] The 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the US: Socially responsible investing (SRI) is an investment process that considers the social and environmental consequences of investments, both positive and negative, within the context of rigorous financial analysis. Social investors include individuals, businesses, universities, hospitals, foundations, pension funds, corporations, religious institutions and other non-profit organisations that consciously put their money to work in ways designed to achieve specific financial goals, while pursuing a future based on sustainability and the needs of multiple stakeholders, including employees, their families and communities.

[ChinaDialogue News] Socially responsible investment emerges in China | Guo Peiyuan ...: A statement by Li Keping, the vice secretary general of the National Council for Social Security Fund, indicated that this large-scale pension fund might consider SRI as its future investment style. Li said in September 2007 that the Social Security Fund will promote a long-term value investment style and consider corporate governance and socially responsible investment.

[Network for Sustainable Financial Markets] NSFM participant Matt Haigh is named Editor of first RI academic ...: Established in 1989, the Social Investment Organization (SIO) is the national non-profit association for the socially responsible investment industry in

[P2P Foundation] Hazel Henderson on Green Finance: The movement toward planetary awareness is now worldwide and goes by many names: One Planet, socially responsible investing, sustainability, the Global Green New Deal, the Green Economy Initiative, the Climate Prosperity Alliance, Transition Towns, Green Jobs, Green for All, “green stimulus,” the Global Marshall Plan, the Post-Carbon Society, the State of the World Forum, the Phoenix Economy, Breaking the Climate Deadlock, Climate Bonds, as well as the hundreds of thousands of groups in over a hundred countries calling for new forms of sustainable livelihoods in their own languages. NGOs are leading and governments are devising responses to protect the most vulnerable populations: women, children, the poor and the least-developed countries from the crises’ impacts.

[Mr. Yamada's Econ Class Blog] Socially Responsible Investing: Enter the ticker symbol for your fund and click “Get quotes.” On the page select a chart on the left hand side (interactive or basic). Click on “compare.” Select the S&P 500 index (^GSPC) and enter the Russell 2000 index manually (

[Organic Insecticides | Organic Pesticides | EcoSMART Bug Spray] Socially Responsible Investing: Definition: SRI began as a religiously motivated social initiative, likely dating back to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), who, in 1758, forbade members from participating in the slave-trade. John Wesley, founder of Methodism, rooted socially responsible behavior in a charitable concern for one’s neighbors–no one should practice in business that might directly or indirectly harm another.

[Change2 Blog Posts - Change2] UNPRI: Are investors taking the initiative? - Change2: If the sheer number of parties to the initiative - 529 at the latest count, 79 of them from Australia - provided a gauge of its success, the principles would be very close to mainstreaming responsible investment. But it doesn’t take much digging beneath the surface to conclude that many of these signatories are, at best, giving ESG factors cursory attention.

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