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[Albania Interior Design] Socially Responsible Investing for Idiots « Albania Interior Design: Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is a broad-based approach to investing that now encompasses an estimated $2.3 trillion out of $24 trillion in the U.S. investment marketplace today. (7) The release of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment-subscribed to by some of the world’s largest institutional investors, asset managers, and related organizations representing over $9 trillion in assets as of mid- 2007-underscores the widespread acceptance of the principle that investors cannot, in the long run, achieve their goals by investing in corporations that externalize their costs onto society.

[Chicago Business] Socially responsible investing gaining traction: While the content of the fund families may differ in focus, they all use social screens to evaluate portfolios. Negative screens exclude all  investments in companies with a bad record in what is deemed ”˜socially conscious’ behavior, whereas positive screens actively seek out companies with a commitment to responsible business practices.

[Bikya Masr] Medical Animal Testing: The Un-Science - Bikya Masr: Medical researchers always talk about the millions of human lives saved from suffering and death as a result of testing on animals. They do not talk about the extreme suffering and death of those animal test subjects or that alternatives are possible and available or that animal research is only one step in testing and one that has been routinely discredited by numerous involved reputable sources.

[Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life] Are You a Socially Responsible Consumer? - by Dumb Little Man: You could be inadvertently encouraging unnecessary animal testing by choosing a specific brand of cosmetics, for example. On the other hand, the cup of fair trade coffee you had this morning might be helping the development of sustainable business communities in Costa Rica.

[Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society] Article round-up: August 2010 « Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and ...: From 32 countries, 998 clinics reported 458 759 treatment cycles including: IVF (117 318), ICSI (232 844), frozen embryo replacement (FER, 86 059), egg donation (ED, 12 685), preimplantation genetic diagnosis/screening (6561), in vitro maturation (247) and frozen oocytes replacements (3498). Overall this represents a 9.7% increase in activity since 2005, which is partly due to an increase in registers (seven more countries with complete coverage).

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: September 14, 2010: “Oil is a finite product”, the secretary general said at Opec’s Vienna headquarters. “I think we need, after 50 years, to find another source of income.“I’m not saying they should abandon oil, but they should use oil to find another source of income”, be it from industry, tourism or alternative energies.

[Green Bean Financial Coaching & Money Coach] Time for more ethical investing? | Green Bean Financial Coaching ...: However, all fund managers are looking to maximise their fund´s return whether it is an ethical fund or not. As ethical funds have extra criteria they may have to select from a smaller pool of companies and therefore you have to decide whether that is negatively affecting your returns.

[Social Finance - Blog] The ABC's of ESG | Blog | Social Finance: The term often encompasses many different RI techniques (some are defined below) including positive and negative screening, ESG integration, proxy voting and shareholder engagement. It is also closely related to other finance and investment practices such as social finance, community investing, mission-based investing, and microfinance, which directly seek out both financial returns and social benefits when making each investment.

[The StockExchangeSecrets Blog] Negative Screening: Discover the types of industries and activities which are excluded by negative screening from ethical investment funds. As time has passed and the ethical investment world has evolved, these criteria have been expanded to include other areas such as the environment.

[Gates Keepers] Gates Keepers :: The Gates Foundation keeps bad company: Explicitly, this post speaks to the ethical question of whether or not the foundation’s agriculture work in Africa will be used to help create markets for Monsanto’s GM crops. (More details between the relationship between the foundation and Monsanto but that almost smells of self dealing and conflict of interest.)However, there is an underlying tone: Why is a “good” foundation 

[Ashley Hamilton Consulting] The ABC's of ESG | Ashley Hamilton Consulting: Negative Screening - Screening is a technique used by many investors to help select the most responsible and ethical companies for investment, and to eliminate the worst corporate actors from their portfolio. Positive screens often identify the best performing companies based on a set of pre-determined ESG criteria, while negative screens identify the worst performers.

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