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[American Journal of Business] Performance Evaluation of U.S. Socially Responsible Mutual Funds ...: One of the earliest, Hamilton, Jo and Statman (1993), finds the returns to socially responsible mutual funds are extremely similar to convention mutual fund returns. The authors conclude that the market does not seem to price social responsibility characteristics, suggesting that while doing good may not allow an investor to do well relative to the benchmark, it doesn't cost anything either.

[Currency Trading] BP Disaster Vexes Socially Responsible Investors: "One interesting question [is] how much people are willing to sacrifice to be socially responsible," says Marcin Kacperczyk, a finance professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. By bailing out of BP for environmental reasons now, some investors may be selling at exactly the wrong time, before the stock has a chance to recover, he notes.

[Money Morning] Money Morning Mailbag: BP's Post-Oil-Spill Reputation Leads ...: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday the government might consider legal action against BP to force dividend suspension. The U.S. government expects BP put its dividend toward compensating workers who will lose their jobs due to a moratorium on deepwater drilling.

[The Santa Clara] Speakers promote morals - News: "The work that Meir Statman and Hersh Sheflin have done here at Santa Clara is really critical because they challenged modern financial theorists," Kurtz stated. "They said, your (financial behavior) theory is probably a good one, .

[Oregon Business News] Need a vice? Try mixing sin stocks with saints | OregonLive.com: Sin stocks are followed by fewer Wall Street analysts and are less likely to be owned by institutions such as pension plans and foundations, according to the study co-written by Princeton's Harrison Hong. That's because, Hong pointed out, individual investors can keep their portfolios "out of the view of enforcers of societal norms."

[Stock Market News & Stocks to Watch from StraightStocks] Money Morning Mailbag: BP's Post-Oil-Spill Reputation Leads ...: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday the government might consider legal action against BP to force dividend suspension. The U.S. government expects BP put its dividend toward compensating workers who will lose their jobs due to a moratorium on deepwater drilling.

[Investopedia.com Headlines] Go Green With Socially Responsible Investing: In a paper entitled "Socially Responsible Mutual Funds", published in the May/June 2000 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal, Meir Statman of Santa Clara University reviewed 31 socially screened mutual funds and found that they outperformed their unscreened peers, but not by a statistically significant margin. The bottom line appears to be that SRI funds do not behave all that differently from regular funds and that investing in a SRI fund will not negatively affect your returns compared to choosing a conventional index fund.

[THIS JUST IN: News, Insight, Self-Help and More] What Investment Characteristics are Important to You? | Psychology ...: More utilitarian benefits would be the investment's cash flow and liquidity. Expressive benefits are those characteristics that let us identify ourselves in social status, values, and level of social consciousness, and convey those characteristics to others.

[Psychology Today Blogs] What Investment Characteristics are Important to You?: - Investing consistent with religious beliefs. - The attraction of hedge funds despite their high fees.

[NewsWire Feed - Haas School, UC Berkeley] Haas School: NewsWire - November 3, 2008: Meir Statman of Santa Clara University and Denys Glushkov of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School won the prize for their paper titled "The Wages of Social Responsibility." Their paper explores the return advantage for investors who tilt towards companies with high scores on social responsibility characteristics, but who refrain from a blanket exclusion of "sin" stocks, commonly defined as stocks in companies involved in alcohol, tobacco, and gambling.

[The Anti] The Anti News World Headlines & California Political Candidate Meg ...: Whitman is a limited partner in more than two dozen other secretive hedge fund and venture capital investments, some of which have been accused by regulators, scholars and activists of questionable business strategies. The Whitman family portfolio includes, for example, at least one fund that sought profits from the bankruptcies of American automakers and another that is partly owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, which has been cited for human rights abuses by U.S. officials and advocacy groups.

[MARKETWATCH.com: MarketWatch 's Election Blog] New WSJ/NBC poll puts Obama ahead by 10 - The Elections - MarketWatch: before you attack obama for outside the box thinking, such as $4000 tax credit for college after 100 hrs of community service, which HELPS OUR COUNTRY, makes us more civic-minded, and prepares us for future, more accountability for teachers, with more funding, emphasis on math and science…

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