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[xigi.net] Among those making the case for a new investor mind-set is Wayne Silby, who in the mid-1970s founded Calvert, which is now the nation’s largest family of SRI mutual funds. At a November meeting of private equity investors in Boston, he argued that socially motivated businesses too often struggle without sufficient capital because would-be investors think too narrowly about risk-adjusted returns.
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[Calvert Socially Responsible Investing News] The Health Care Challenge: Balancing Bottom Lines and Employee Health: The U.S. health care system leaves an estimated 46 million people without insurance and vulnerable to devastating medical bills or untreated health conditions.1 The Kaiser Family Foundation reported that health care premiums increased 6.1% between the spring of 2006 and spring of 2007, exceeding the annual growth in workers earnings (3.7%) and inflation (2.6%) over that time.2 Since 2000, health insurance premium increases have been between 8% and 14% per year, while inflation and changes in workers earnings have typically been in the 3% to 4% range.3 With health care costs soaring, an increasing number of employers are either significantly reducing health care coverage or choosing not to provide health care insurance at all.4
[1000 Cranes Blog] Wall Street Jumps on the Socially Responsible Bandwagon: The Calvert Foundation, which helped develop MicroPlace, was named as the first issuer to sell investments on the site. There are many options now available for socially responsible investing, so what's stopping you from evaluating your .
[Amfinance-bhd.com] What Is A Stock?: Anmore specialized index nature and severity come those for even Socially Responsible Investing indices that include only those companies satisfying ecological or other social criteria. Typically known as SRI or even Socially Responsible Indexes, SRI indexes allow investors to watch stocks based in data from their beliefs &
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[Gristmill] Q&A with SRI expert Thomas Van Dyck: The epiphany for socially responsible investing came when I decided to take the money I made and invest it in a company called American Fuel Technologies, which was converting cow manure to ethanol. When the stock doubled, I thought, "Wow, this is the answer!
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