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[Financial Query] Socially Responsible Investing 101: Invest in Social Good and Your ...: Although socially responsible investing has expanded dominance in the last numerous decades, countless socially responsible investors are still under the feeling that to invest in social good, they must decline certain levels of portfolio performance. However, with the confirmation escalating that socially responsible investment funds strictly match, if not surpass, their market counterparts, many socially responsible investors are capitalizing their earnings - and their involvement to social good.

[Reason Magazine - Topics > Government Spending] The Next Catastrophe: Think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a ...: From January to October 2008, defined benefit funds—those promising a predetermined amount of retirement money to the payee—averaged losses of 26 percent, according to Northern Trust Investment Risk and Analytical Services, making it the worst year on record for corporate and public pension funds. The largest public pension fund in the United States, the California Public Employees Retirement Security System (CalPERS), lost a staggering 20 percent of its value in just three months last year.

[NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise - News feed] Wholesome Investing | Newsroom | NextBillion.net | Development ...: That's why it's crucial for social VCs to have mission-focused shareholder agreements in place early, says Paul Richardson, president of Renewal 2, a socially responsible fund being raised by Renewal Partners of Vancouver. Renewal plans to raise a fund of between 30 million and 50 million Canadian dollars that will invest in sectors including green consumer products, social communications and financial services for underserved groups.

[About.com Socially Responsible Investing] FT Sustainable Business, Responsible Investing Conference: According to the event's organizers, "companies are increasingly being proactive, instead of reactive, to CSR issues" despite the tough business climate. Conference topics include The Future of American Corporate Responsibility: Integrating CR into the Business;

[Global Investment Watch] The Rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Part IV: According to Gao Xiqing, president and chief investment officer of the $200 billion fund: “We are looking at clean energy and environmentally-friendly investment.” According to Mr. Gao, the CIC would look at “everything cross-border except for casinos, tobacco companies or machine-gun companies.”

[EcoGEOS] ETF Watch: December 12 - December 19 - Features: Marc Gunther » Fidelity, Calvert and Sudan: Calvertâ┚¬Ã¢â™sa socially responsible investment company, based in Bethesda, Md., where I live, so Iâ┚¬Ã¢â™ve had a chance to meet some people who work .

[Greenewable's Weblog] Department of Labor Forbids SRI for Pensions « Greenewable’s Weblog: This leads to another problem in the institutional investing industry, which is that fiduciaries are protected from being wrong, if they follow the herd.  At the individual level, a bad investment choice can be acceptable if it has been made by other well informed peers.  Think of the recent turmoil around CDO’s.  Whereas, a bad investment choice made separate from the herd, regardless of the logic and reason behind it, will put a fiduciary’s job at risk.  This cannot be underestimated as part of the problem of discouraging fiduciaries from social investing, regardless of the DOL mandate.  The amplification effect this has on mistakes is fodder for a different entry.

[GlobalPundit.org] UPDATE: The New School In Exile; Citizen - Student Action ...: 4) I agree for student participation to establish a committee on Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) for the University’s endowment and that this committee will then establish an independent auditing process with the SRI framework. The committee to establish the SRI will meet by the .

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Worldchanging: Bright Green: Is Capitalism Growing More Socially ...: In response to Bottleman: As a former analyst now learning about SRI, it seems easier to enforce values through owning debt rather than equity, by its fundamental structure. As an owner of debt, your "rights" or "social hurdles" are written into contracts and you are first in line for repayment.

[Socially Responsible Investing] Human Rights is Risky Business : Socially Responsible Investing: This string of reports reinforces the value of screening investment portfolios for human rights issues that is the normal practice for Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) at Blue Summit Financial Group. By incorporating a variety of social and environmental criteria into our investment process, we not only place fundamental importance on respect for human rights but also protect our investors against the risks of labor mandates and negative corporate image that can .

[SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] The Final Frontier: Social Investing -- Seeking Alpha: From the environment to religion, from corporate governance to peace advocacy and beyond, SRI’s rainbow of goals and boundaries far outweigh its common elements. Socially responsible is a tidy label, but it reveals almost nothing about any one investor’s objectives other than suggesting that there’s an agenda beyond simply turning a profit.

[Ideoblog] Ideoblog: GE, corporate social responsibility and markets: It doesn't necessarily follow that the socially responsible firms are doing worse than comparable firms. The interesting thing is that there is nevertheless a market for such investments, indicating that firms may be able to reduce their cost of capital by appealing to socially responsible investors.

[RiskMetrics Group - Risk & Governance Blog] RiskMetrics Group - Risk & Governance Blog: Proxy Season Preview ...: The council, which comprises ASX officials and 21 groups including the ACSI, the Law Council of Australia, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, removed most references to “best practice” in the second edition of the principles in order to make them seem less “prescriptive.” This was one of many changes that persuaded the directors’ organization to sign on to the new principles after objecting to the first edition.

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