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[Investopedia: Articles and Tutorials] Socially Responsible Stocks: Do Good Deeds Punish Profits?: Socially responsible companies also face fewer of the costs and risks associated with class-action lawsuits, consumer boycotts, unfavorable government rulings or legislation and other risks arising from socially irresponsible actions. These are contingencies that usually don't show up in financial statements, yet they have the capacity to inflict sudden and dramatic setbacks in cost structures and profit opportunities - for example, if a court awards substantial compensation to plaintiffs or the government issues an edict imposing stricter emission controls.

[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Unravelling the myth behind sustainable investing: Fresher figures from Morningstar showed that "ethical" share funds added an annualised 3.99 per cent for the five years to 30 March 2009, beating "non-ethical" share funds 5.02 per cent per annum gain in the same period. Both underperformed the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index.

[EthicalMarkets.com] RESPONSIBLE INVESTOR EVENTS PRESENTS: Integrating ESG into ...: Integrating ESG into Portfolios is a one-day seminar examining how institutional investors and portfolio managers can integrate environmental, social and corporate governance issues into mainstream investment analysis and decision-making. Delegates will hear from practitioners who will deliver knowledge and insights gained via their first-hand experience.

[Calvert Socially Responsible Investing News] Calvert Investments - ~News Article: In fact, Calvert’s actively managed sustainable and responsible equity funds avoided certain financial services companies, such as Lehman Brothers, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch, which took severe hits as the financial crisis unfolded, because of our corporate governance analysis and criteria. However, as investors with broad exposure to the markets, we have a profound interest in governance reforms.

[Vector Bravo: change directions] Vector Bravo: change directions: What are YU doing about socially ...: What groups like these are finding is that institutional investors like York, or perhaps the Canada Pension Plan, are spreading their risk far across the whole market (a sound strategy for large, “universal” investors) and in doing so they have been investing in all sectors of the economy without particular regard to ethical, environmental, social and governance matters.

[CSR International] Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investment Trends Study: In Brazil, where the concept of sustainability led to the creation of an SI labeled fund in 2001, engagement with companies on the issue of corporate governance has become fairly common, and the practice of proxy voting has begun to take root as well.

[1888 PressRelease.com - Latest Press Releases] "Re-Tooling The Economy - Sustainable Responsible Investment In ...: This Conference on SRI is the largest in Asia, with 250 Japanese and foreign SRI professionals expected, featuring two Roundtable Plenaries and twelve workshops by leaders of industry, finance, government and religion. Topics under discussion will include“Asset Management and Economic, Social and Governance Issues”, “Integrating Economic, Social and Governance Issues into Investment Portfolios?”, “10 Years of Triple Bottom Line Investment – Lessons learned”, “Faith Consistent Investing”, “Fund Performance and Strategy Japan – Europe” and “Business, Human Rights and Investments in Asia”.

[Wealth Manager Magazine] A Conscience for Commodities - Undesignated - Wealth Manager Magazine: Although as an asset class, they may not be open to all the same analyses and ESG considerations as say, equities or fixed income, this should not be regarded as an insurmountable problem””particularly if you believe, as does Steven Lydenberg, CIO of Domini Social Investments in New York, that “a responsible investment (ESG) strategy should be asset class specific.”

[Investment Advisor] The ETF Advisor: Socially Responsible Investing: New Hampshire-based mutual fund manager Pax World””which considers environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues when picking stocks for all its funds””plans to launch three new SRI-screened ETFs in 2009: the sShares FTSE Environmental Technologies Index ETF, and two regionally oriented funds; the sShares KLD Europe Asia Pacific Sustainability Index ETF and the sShares KLD North America Sustainability Index ETF.

[Trillium Asset Management Corporation] trilliuminvest.com » Blog Archive » Keeping the SRI in ESG: The new sustainability shops have worked hard to differentiate themselves from traditional SRI - that is, us. The claim is that the new ESG approach improves upon traditional SRI in that it is forward-looking and focused on uncovering investment opportunities in a more sustainable world, without being hampered by negative screening and without taking on controversial shareholder advocacy.

[Social Finance] Green Real Estate: The Next Frontier | Social Finance: REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) are identifying and responding to ESG challenges, such as reporting, using benchmarks like LEED, and staying ahead of the regulatory curve. Ben Spruzen, from Australia’s Sustainable Investment Research Institute, told us about a study of 36 REITs that showed that the management of ESG risks and opportunities contributed positively to performance.

[frogblog] frogblog » Ethical investment wins: Can I say, in my own defence - that I believe in ethical investing - that I joined the Credit Union movement after evaluating the alternatives and deciding that a Credit Union was the most ethical option. I became a director because I believe in co-operatives and democratic control and sometimes you have to put your actions where your beliefs are.

[RichardBejah.com BLOG] Al Gore’s war on climate change has help raise awareness about the ...: Former vice president and climate change champion Al Gore has been leading the charge in raising awareness about the value of sustainable investing. His high profile work in the climate change arena and the creation of his own sustainable investment fund called Generation Investment Management have been key factors in driving momentum.

[Social Finance] Responsible Property Investing and Property Management | Social ...: Responsible Property Investing (RPI) is a term that captures all the ways that investors can find and create value through improving the economic, social, and environmental profile of their investments. RPI means portfolio, asset or property management strategies that go beyond compliance with minimum legal requirements in order to address the environmental and social issues associated with property investing.

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