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[Insider's Investment Guide] Socially Responsible Investing for Idiots | Insider's Investment Guide: Screening means a fund will include or exclude companies based upon criteria such as alcohol, tobacco, animal testing, and human rights, among others. These screens can be positive (e.g., including companies that treat employees well) or negative (e.g., excluding companies who do business with disturbed musicians).

[NGOs - we & others] NGOs - we & others » Blog Archive » Ethical Markets.com: To that end, only highly qualified businesses which adhere to stringent social and ethical criteria, as used by all major socially responsible mutual funds and by our Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators, are accepted as sponsors. Advertising rates for renewable energy and socially responsible start-up companies are available.

[InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.] Mutual Fund Managers Don't Invest in Their Own Funds! - Forecasts ...: Interestingly, most of the successful Advisors I have met do have a huge amount of their own money invested in their programs - sometimes even more than they should for purposes of diversification. When you read over some of the bios of our recommended Advisors, you will find that several of them got into the money management business primarily to manage their own money after retiring from another profession or selling a business.

[BCBUSINESS RSS Feed] B.C. is Fertile Ground for Ethical and Green Investors | Eco ...: Like the rest of the market, the track record of SRI has not been great over the past year, although the Jantzi Social Index, for example, has slightly outperformed the TSX Composite Index. However, I believe that with confidence returning to stock markets, investors will add money to their pocketbooks by including some of our B.C.

[Four Pillars] Socially Responsible Investing: Mike: I’m not so sure, he talks about “I invested in SRI funds for the positive changes they can effect on the economy by supporting clean and green technologies.” which seems to be more than just arguing for ethical choices at annual meetings…

[The Train of Thought] The Train of Thought: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: A ...: I got interested in ethical investing some forty years ago as I believed that when we invest in a company we share in the responsibility for the activities of the company as well as participate in the outcomes of the company's activities. Therefore anyone valuing their personal or spiritual growth has to take these things into account when investing.

[Investopedia.com Headlines] Socially Responsible Mutual Funds: A socially responsible investing strategy is one that views successful investment returns and responsible corporate behavior as going hand in hand. SRI investors believe that by combining certain social criteria with rigorous investment standards, they can identify securities that will earn competitive returns and help build a better world.

[Company Updates] Press Releases on Justmeans - 2009 SRI Service Award Winners Announced: Zevin was a leader in the movement to divest from apartheid South Africa and has founded, co-founded, and led numerous social change organizations including Resist (against the war in Vietnam), United States Servicemen’s Fund (anti-war GI coffee houses), Haymarket Foundation (change not charity), Affirmative Investments (direct community investments), and Shared Interest (support for informal economy in South Africa). A Harvard PhD in economics, Mr.

[IZA Discussion Papers] Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility: 5 In his review of what economics has to contribute to our understanding of CSR, Kitzmueller (2008) notes that if ethical consumers are a minority (majority), the government may under (over) regulate. ...

[Kenyantykoon's Blog] THE SPECIALTY MUTUAL FUND UNPLUGGED!! « Kenyantykoon's Blog: For instance a specialty fund invested in real estate might make investors suffer if the real estate market tanks. This means that to prevent this, you should always be informed with what the fund is investing in by reading prospectuses and the periodic reports of the areas the fund has invested in- this information can keep you from serious losses.

[Steadyhand Blog] Complacency: A Major Misstep of Mutual Fund Investors - Steadyhand ...: The philosophy, people and practices criteria are still relevant to me in building a private wealth business at Steadyhand, and they should be important to all buyers of investment services. A fund's performance will ebb and flow, but its principles and people should not.

[Confessions of a Consumer Addict] Confessions of a Consumer Addict » Blog Archive » The Pain and ...: Most of us probably strike out big-time on these criteria because our economic system focuses only on how much money we can make, not on how we make it. If we invest in mutual funds, for example, the vast majority of them only give you a glimmer of where your money is and what it’s doing and to whom.

[The Health Care Blog] The Health Care Blog: So Much For Comparative Effectiveness: If a doctor could tell a patient who wanted an MRI that (a) the situation doesn’t call for it, (b) insurance won’t pay for it and (c) there had already been a few cases where patients who turned out to be the 1 in 1,000 that had the brain tumor but didn’t get the MRI sued but health court judges ruled in favor of the defendant(s) on a Summary Judgment basis and (d) those rulings carried the power of legal precedent. If a doctor can’t refuse to order an MRI under those circumstances unless the patient is prepared to self-pay, I would throw up my hands regarding the ability of tort reform to reduce defensive medicine related healthcare costs.

[Untitled] Licence to lose money | The Economist: Since the time of Jesus, getting rich and staying ethical are mutually incompatible concepts (remember the camel trying to pass through an eye of a needle?), certifying standards for financiers is going to be like setting ethical standards of liars: an anathema.

[Comments for The Rates Blog] Ban commissions for financial advisors and bring forward ...: “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to work out what is going to happen over the next year until KiwiSaver selling becomes better regulated. Small uneconomic providers will pull out every stop to get enough members to make their business viable before the new adviser regulations recognise KiwiSaver as a category one complex product and restrict salespeople to those who hold a level five qualification.

[Social ROI: A Social Entrepreneurship Blog] Beginner's Guide To Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) | Social ...: While there is no one standard of criteria across Socially Responsible Investing, most SRI mutual funds, whether conservative or progressive, employ screens that exclude companies that manufacture tobacco or alcohol products. social and governance factors into their investment decisions.” Yahoo Directory of Socially Responsible Mutual Funds · Pax World Funds- “Socially Responsible Mutual Funds, Ethical Investing, socially responsible investing” .

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