Posted in Uncategorized on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
2009 SRI Service Award Winners Announced Posted by mincho2008 Wednesday, 04 November 2009 SRI in the Rockies, the largest and longest-running sustainable and responsible investing conference in the world, has announced that Reginald Stanley, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Calvert Investments, and Robert Zevin, founder of Robert Brooke Zevin Associates and one [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
21 September 2009
By the end of September, investors in the JSE will be a step closer to accessing a fast developing global investment theme – responsible investment – as the exchange starts to disseminate live values of its Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Index to the trading screens of thousands of investors worldwide.
The SRI index is [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As of April 18, investors will be able to compare the carbon footprints of leading U.S. mutual funds. The report shows that the carbon intensity of mutual funds varies widely, with the highest-carbon fund found to be 38 times more carbon intensive than the fund with the smallest carbon footprint.
The groundbreaking “Carbon Counts USA” report [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bernard madoff, capital markets, depression, econoimc, ethics, Madoff, recession, recovery, socially resonsible investing, SRI, wall street on February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As the spokes are coming off of the global financial system, we have all had a chance to witness how the sausage is made…and it is really scary.
Most outsiders, like me, assumed that a post-SOX world would ensure safe and transparent investments for the masses. As we now know, things have only gotten worse. [...]
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Posted in Business, ethics, investing, tagged alternative energy, best, clean, David van der Roest, environmental, equity, etf, fixed income, fund management, funds, global, green, investing, moral, mutual funds, religious, socially responsible investing, SRI, top picks, top ten, transparency on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The below guidelines were provided by EuroSIF and represent the latest evolution in responsible fund management. I believe these transparency guidelines are especially relevant during this time of financial uncertainty. As fund managers find it difficult to attract capital, more funds will need to incorporate “confidence building strategies.” Following the after-shocks of Monday the 15th, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Resource Stock, South Africa, TBL, ethics, investing, tagged David van der Roest, energy, JSE, raw materials, resource stocks, socially responsible investing, South Africa, SRI, sri fund on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
South Africa: SRI Index Beats Market
The JSE socially responsible investment (SRI) index outperformed the Johannesburg all share index by 5%. As the world economy navigates the doldrums, many have suggested that SRI strategies are a luxury we can’t afford. The JSE SRI index is a wake up call! If an emerging economy, yoked to [...]
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Posted in ethics, investing, tagged cars, ethical investing, Europe, green, green fund, investing, investment, MPG, mutual fund, oil, socially responsible investing, SRI on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
While writing this blog, a barrel of crude oil is currently trading at an all time high: $140.39. This is bad news for socially responsible funds. Socially responsible investment (SRI) strategies typically avoid industries that add to Earth’s environmental woes. The energy industry’s connection to issues like global warming has kept it on the “sin [...]
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