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[Accountability Central] Want to be a Socially Responsible Investor? CFA Institute Offers ...: The same report found that SRI assets increased from $639 billion in 1995 to $2.71 trillion in 2007 – an increase of more than 324 percent. Social Investment Forum reported that from 2005 to 2007 alone, SRI assets increased more than 18 percent while the broader universe of professionally managed assets increased less than three percent.
[Untitled] Vigeo Group | CSR Audit (in FRA): Offering services similar to that of traditional accounting firms, The Vigeo Group performs CSR audits and provides feedback to firms about the extent to which they are fulfilling their social promises.
[Ecopreneurist] Nobody’s Really Going Green - Most Companies Just Pay Lip Service: In fact, between 2005 and 2006, the amount of assets managed by SRI (Socially Responsible Investments) funds domiciled in Europe grew by more than 40%
[Calvert Socially Responsible Investing News] Everybody's Talking ESG Integration: But What is State of the Art?: Mercer is evolving its overall research process to evaluate money managers based on their ability to “pro-actively integrate environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) into their mainstream investment process.” The firm’s Global Investment Management Database (GIMD) managers now include specific questions to track how managers are considering social and environmental issues when they invest.
[Integrity Research] What’s In A Name?: The good news is that a growing number of practitioners are becoming what we call progressive. More asset owners are speaking of being long-term or responsible investors or both.
[The Augusta Free Press] Green 401(k)s: Right now health-care and government agencies are those most likely to include an SRI option for employees’ retirement accounts, but a handful of large companies have gotten in on the act as well. For instance, chipmaker Intel began offering its employees an SRI retirement plan option eight years ago.
[Original Signal - Transmitting Finance] The Final Frontier: Social Investing: based Aperio Group LLC. This nine-year-old boutique has updated portfolio optimization for a new generation of tax-efficient and socially responsible investing (SRI) indexing strategies.Complete Story »
[Index Gurus Financial Blog] Quiet Conversations: The Expressive Nature of Socially Responsible ...: Entine defends the Gates Foundation in the Wall Street Journal and, in turn, denounces Anita Roddick, the founder of the Body Shop, who “was hailed as the Mother Teresa of Capitalization” and whose company was the “world’s most popular ”˜socially responsible’ investment.” Entine claims that Ms. Roddick had stolen the name, concept, product line, and even the brochure of a San Francisco store that opened seven years earlier, and is delighted that his report on the misdeeds of the company and its founder sent its stock down by more than $600 million, “causing great anguish to social investors.”
[ecosector Blog] ROI of Green Investing, Part 1: The first Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds avoided companies that made cigarettes, supplied the military, or did business in South Africa. This new approach was called “negative screening”.
[KLD BLOG] Socially Responsible Investing: The Next New Thing is Already Here: Since KLD’s founding in 1988, our client base has been advisors and money managers. Starting in 2004, we began to see new types of clients with different approaches to SRI from those of our traditional clients.
[Legal Theory Blog] Richardson on Environmental Standards for Socially Responsible ...: A long-standing movement for socially responsible investment (SRI) has recently begun to advocate environmental standards for financiers. While the SRI movement has gained more influence in recent years, it has come at the price of jettisoning its former emphasis on ethical investment in favour of an instrumental business case approach.
[Radical Blogs.org] University of Florida SDS on Hunger Strike for Socially ...: At least 11 people have committed to some level of participation in this hunger strike, including some that will be consuming nothing but water until our Socially Responsible Investing proposal is accepted by the University of Florida. We need your help in letting the administration know that they can no longer ignore us and our proposal.
[Accountability Central] The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News - Stormy Climate ...: CSRwire members are companies and NGOs, agencies and organizations interested in communicating their corporate citizenship, sustainability, and socially responsible initiatives to a global audience through CSRwire's syndication network and weekly News Alerts. CSRwire content covers issues of Diversity, Philanthropy, Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) Environment, Human Rights, Workplace Issues, Business Ethics, Community Development and Corporate Governance.
[Financial aspects of planning and living a good life] FAQ #11. Why do you promote SRI (Socially Responsible Investing ...: Doing well by doing good - it is not necessarily a pipe dream Numerous scary environmental and social phenomena and trends exist that are making increasingly more people conscious about their own role and responsibilities related not .
[Wealth Management] Socially Responsible Investing: One way to reduce the percentage in the Mosaic portfolio is to populate the large-cap value and growth asset classes using individual stocks, thereby controlling the two asset classes that hold the highest percentage of “sin stocks.” Regardless, the portfolio appears to pass the 5% rule.
[ethics for the real world] Socially Responsible Investing Confuses the Ethical Issues: At Grinnell College, where I am vice chair of the board and a member of the investment committee, we have recently adopted an SRI policy based on the proactive work of a group of concerned students.
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