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[Foreign Investors Group] Socially Responsible Investing for Idiots: 9.    SocialFunds.com, an advertising-driven website with information on SRI mutual funds, community investments, corporate research, shareowner actions, and daily social investment news.

[Innovation + Responsibility] Trends in Socially Responsible Investing - Innovation + Responsibility: SRI is continuing to grow and it's my belief that as investors become more and more hip to the shenanigans of the greediest sorts that run rampant on Wall Street and that are currently reverberating throughout our economy (because, you know, Enron wasn't enough of a wake up call!), SRI will become more and more popular.

[CorpGov.net] CorpGov.net » SIF Funds Outperformed: This analysis underscores the reality that socially responsible investments offer what are genuinely competitive returns,” said Cheryl Smith, chairman of the board at SIF and president at Boston-based Trillium Asset Management Corporation. “In fact, the 2009 data show that SRI funds specializing in large cap stocks have turned in an extremely strong performance that outpaced the S&P 500 over both the short term and the long term.”

[Comments for Sustainablog] Low Impact Living: Invest in the Best ”” Green Investing and SRI ...: The bonds that the Green Century Balanced Fund invests in may be of any maturity and are generally of investment grade credit quality, although the Fund may invest up to 35% of its net assets in high yield, below investment grade bonds,******commonly known as junk bonds,***** which involves risk greater than investing in more highly rated bonds.

[Today from The OBE Community] Making Sense of Green Investment Funds & Socially Responsible ...: The themes surrounding SRI have been evolving for almost 50 years now – from Ralph Nader’s fight on behalf of auto safety standards in the 60’s, to faith-based campaigns to divest from South African businesses in the 70’s, to the creation of investment management teams in the 80’s and 90’s that screened and engaged companies on behalf of the common values of shareholders.

[Christinapomoni's Blog] Can socially responsible investments make good returns ...: A common apprehension about socially responsible investing (SRI) is that there is a premium that organizations have to pay for being socially responsible that inevitably lowers investment returns. If indeed this is the case, then SRI is nothing more than a niche market that will only appeal to investors with positive perceptions about particular companies, who are ready to accept lower returns for satisfying their concerns.

[Jakarta Globe RSS: Business] Socially Responsible Investing Gaining Traction in Indonesia - The ...: Eko Pratomo, senior adviser at fund manager Fortis Indonesia, said his firm had not yet implemented the UN principles, although its Shariah funds follow a similar approach by limiting investments to nondestructive industries and industries that have no negative impact on the public.

[MyBankTracker.com] Responsibility Pays: Socially Responsible Investment Funds ...: Socially responsible investing has the potential to become an important field in the next few years, especially as consumers start to question and consider the morality of those on Wall Street after this talk of bonuses and shady mergers during the recession. Over half of SIF funds consider the executive pay practices of companies when making their investment decisions.

[Carer's Blog - Health Care] Socially Responsible Investing for Idiots | Carer's Blog - Health Care: The reasons are twofold: A recognition that corporate responsibility and societal concerns are valid parts of investment decisions, (1) and a growing number of academic studies have demonstrated that socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds perform competitively with non-SRI funds over time. (2)

[Four Pillars] Socially Responsible Investing: Anyhow, taking the iShares example, with ~$10B in the XIU fund and ~$20M in XEN, it looks like such a tiny part of the capital in Canadian markets is following a socially responsible investing strategy that you’d never see the effect in real life. Plus, it looks like the reason that the SRI funds got just as good results as the general market is that they look a lot like closet index funds!

[Ethonomics] How to Make Socially Responsible Investments Pay Off | For the ...: There's momentum, and enthusiasm, but the vast majority of our consumers buy Timberland products because the shoe fits, aesthetically, in terms of price/value, in terms of technical features--not because we maintain a measurably higher standard of human rights practice in our supply chain or because we label our products transparently with environmental "nutrition labels."

[sterlingknightconsultants.com] Performance of Socially Responsible Investments | Socially ...: Socially responsible investing (SRI) spans a wide and growing range of products and investments, from stocks and bonds, to savings, checking and other banking accounts, to venture capital. Like all investors, socially responsible investors seek a competitive .

[eJewish Philanthropy: The Jewish Philanthropy Blog] Can Investments and Charitable Giving Co-exist? | eJewish ...: The formal term for this is Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) and was featured as part of a recent webinar offered by the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) to its member Reform congregations in addressing investment strategies for synagogue endowments. SRI means adopting a double bottom line, according to Richard Slutzky, a philanthropic and financial consultant at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

[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.

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