Socially Responsible Investing

Sponsored By: TIAA-CREF

• Podcast

  Green Investing

  Being green has gone from fringe to fashionable, and investors want a piece of this revolution too. But are these new green investors finding their way to the best opportunities?

• Green Attitude

  Your clients are focused on the environment. Are you?

• Financial Planning Magazine's Socially Responsible Investment Guide

• It's So Easy Being Green

  SeekingAlpha: An analysis of the stocks that were discussed in Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV program that aired on Monday April 21st.

• God And Mammon

  The ethical investing niche contains the conflicting goals of maximizing profit and maintaining a moral agenda. In the past the majority of investors have struggled to put ethics first, but this could change for investors focusing on the sub-niche of finance complying with Sharia (Islamic law).

• Principles and Principal

  Socially Responsible Investing has evolved in recent years, and it is now easier to use SRI to build a profitable portfolio.

• Fund Times: Vanguard Plans Global Stock Index Fund

  Fund changes announced by Vanguard, TIAA-CREF, Turner and RiverSource.

• Custodians Enhance Socially Aware Vetting

  Major custody banks are increasingly adding socially responsible investment factors into their monitoring services.

• Sustainability: Social Investing's Hot Idea

  These days, the concept of sustainability is a hot ticket into the world of socially responsible investing. Last week, three investment management companies announced plans to incorporate the elements of sustainability investing in their product offerings.

• How More Companies Are Embracing Social Responsibility as Good Business

  WSJ.com: Ninety percent of companies say they are doing more to make corporate responsibility a core strategy, according to a recent survey from McKinsey & Co. What's behind this trend?

• Social Investing Soars Amid More Options

  WSJ.com: Socially responsible investment assets in the U.S. surged 18% to $2.71 trillion in 2005 and 2006, according to a new report.

• Nearly One in Every $9 Under Management in U.S. Is Green

  SRI growth surpasses overall investment asset growth by 15%.

• Wall Street Banks Go Greener with Principles on Power Sector

  Three of the world's top financial institutions have released The Carbon Principles: climate-change guidelines for advisors and lenders to U.S. coal and other greenhouse gas-intensive industries.

• Conscience Stocks Can Pay in Sinner's World

  Bloomberg: Investment advisers rant that SRI portfolios can't earn as much as Wall Street's standard, diversified fare. But they are mistaken about SRI-managed money, which can earn competitive, long-term returns. Commentary by Jane Bryant Quinn.

• Valence Technology: Green Stock with Potential to Bloom

  Seeking Alpha: Valence (VLNC) will be a key player in reducing carbon footprints thought to cause global warming.

• Young Millionaires Are More Diversified than Old

  WSJ.com: From The Wealth Report.  A new study from Northern Trust shows millionaires in their 30s are better diversified across all asset classes than millionaires in their 50s and 60s are. There is also a generation gap when it comes to socially responsible investing.

• 9 out of 10 Emerging Market Companies Offer Sustainability Disclosure

  From Social Investment Forum: Global Study: Nine Out Of Ten Emerging Market Companies Now Offer Some Sustainability Disclosure. A study of emerging market companies indicates nearly nine out of ten firms (87 percent) now offer at least some sustainability disclosure, according to a major new report released by the Social Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN).

• Google Ramps up Philanthropy

  WSJ.com: Google: From 'Don't Be Evil' to How to Do Good. In one of the most widely watched efforts in corporate giving in years, Google Inc. unveiled yesterday nearly $30 million in new grants and investments, outlining how it will focus a massive philanthropic endeavor that erases the usual boundaries between the for-profit and nonprofit worlds.

• Fund Manager Profile: Naughty or Nice

  Charles Norton steers his "defensive growth" vice fund toward all things destructive.

• How Social Conscience Hooks Hedge Funds

  WSJ.com: The growing appetite for "socially conscious" investing options is starting to grab the attention of hedge funds.