Organizations Associated With
Ethical Investing & Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)
Suggested websites are denoted with an asterisk
(*).
"Alternative"
Banks
This link contains a list of some alternative banks in Europe and the US whose lending
activities specifically incorporate social and environmental mandates.
Analistas
Internacionales en Sostenibildad SA (Spain)
"Analistas Internacionales en Sostenibilidad is a professional services
company, specialized in the analysis of listed companies... under
social, environmental and corporate governance risk and performance
indicators."
Association for Responsible Investment in
Asia (Hong Kong)
"The Association for Responsible Investment in Asia is a not-for-profit membership association dedicated to promoting socially
responsible investment (SRI) in Asia."
Canadian Community Investment Network Co-op (Can.)
The Canadian Community Investment Network Co-op's goal is to 'expand
access to capital and support services for social economy enterprises
and economically and socially excluded individuals and communities
across Canada.'
Charity SRI (U.K.)
Charity SRI is aimed at encouraging charities in "Responsible
Investment... aligning investments with mission and incorporating
social, environmental and ethical issues into investments."
Corporate
Critic (U.K.)
"The Corporate Critic indexes and rates the Corporate Social Responsibility records of
over 50,000 companies."
*Corporate Knights (Can.)
Corporate Knights seeks to make business responsible.
CorporateRegister.com (U.K.)
"The CorporateRegister.com is the world's largest online directory of corporate
non-financial reports. These include Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR), sustainability, environmental and
social reports."
Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable
Development (VBDO) (Holland)
The Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development unites shareholders who recognize the importance of sustainable
entrepreneurship.
Dutch Sustainability Research (Netherlands)
Dutch Sustainability Research "... help(s) institutional investors to
assess the market for sustainable investments."
EnvironmentStocks.com (U.S.A.)
"EnvironmentStocks.com is an investor and industry news portal for the environmental and
socially responsible investing sector."
Environmental Finance (U.K.)
Environmental Finance is a monthly magazine covering
environmental issues on the lending, insurance, investment and trading
decisions affecting industry.
Ethical
Investment Research Services (EIRS) (U.K.)
"Ethical Investment Research Services provides independent research into corporate behaviour needed by
ethical investors..."
Ethical
Performance (U.K.)
Ethical Performance:
"... the global independent business newsletter on corporate social
responsibility and socially responsible investment."
*European Sustainable and Responsible Development
Forum (France)
European Sustainable and Responsible Development
Forum:
Promoting the concept, practice and
development of sustainable responsible investment.
Forum
Nachhaltige Geldanlagen e. V. (Germany)
The forum, or asociation, for German socially responsible investing.
GES
Investment Services (Sweden/Denmark)
"GES Investment Services is Northern Europe's leading
research and service provider for responsible
investments."
*Global 100
(Can.)
"The Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the
World is an annual project initiated by Corporate
Knights, the magazine for clean capitalism."
Global Impact Investing Network
(U.S.A)
"The Global Impact Investing Network is a
not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the
effectiveness of impact investing. Impact investments
aim to solve social or environmental challenges while
generating financial profit."
*Good Money (U.S.A.)
Good Money offers information on social, ethical and environmental
investing.
Green Business Network (U.S.A.)
Green Business Network:
Resource center on business, the
environment and the bottom line.
*Green Money Journal (U.S.A.)
"The GreenMoney Journal
encourages and promotes the awareness of socially & environmentally
responsible business, investing and consumer resources in publications &
online."
Groupe
Investissement Responsable (Can.)
Groupe Investissement Responsable promotes socially responsible
investing.
*Innovest Strategic Investors (Can.
& U.S.A.)
Innovest Strategic Investors is a research
and advisory firm specializing in analyzing companies' performance on
environmental,
social, and strategic governance issues.
Institutional
Shareholder Services (ISS) (Global)
Institutional Shareholder Services provides global
corporate governance research.
International Association of Investors in the
Social Economy (Belgium)
International Association of Investors in the Social Economy is predominantly a corporate membership
organization. Useful site to gain understanding
of what is happening in business to create socially and environmental
reporting standards.
Investor Responsibility Research Center (U.S.A.)
Impartial information on corporate
governance and social responsibility issues affecting investors and
corporations.
Investors Against Genocide
(U.S.A.)
"Investors Against Genocide is a non-profit organization dedicated to
convincing mutual fund and other investment firms to change their
investing strategy so as to avoid complicity in genocide."
*Jantzi
Research (Can.)
Jantzi Research conducts social and environmental
research on Canadian companies.
Kayema Investment
Research and Analysis
(Israel)
Kayema provides sustainable and ethical investing equity research
services.
KLD Research Analytics (U.S.A.)
KLD Research Analytics provides social investment research.
Libra Information Services (Can.)
Libra Information Services is a resource centre for social and
environmental investing information.
Moxy Vote
(U.S.A.)
Moxy Vote "... will enable socially conscious investors to effect
change in corporate governance by helping them vote their proxy ballots
they receive for the stocks they own. Moxy Vote will facilitate it by
allowing them to partner with professional advocates who have informed
opinions. The investors' shares will then vote in parallel."
*Natural
Capital Institute - ResponsibleInvesting.org (U.S.A)
"Natural Capital Institute - ResponsibleInvesting.org provides a publicly accessible database of complete equity holdings and screening
categories of North American socially responsible mutual funds."
RiBH - The Sharia
Finance Portal
(Ummah)
"RIBH is an independent portal about Sharia Compliant
Finance."
Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA)
(Australasia)
"The RIAA is the peak industry body for professionals
working in responsible investment in Australia and New
Zealand... also helps individuals and organisations to
learn more about how they can make investment choices
that take environmental, social, ethical or governance
issues into account..."
Scryve
"Scryve is a research and vetting engine for
environmental and social responsibility. We rate
companies and provide you with alternatives options to
use whenever you don't like a company. We've got
research on over 3500 companies from industry leading
CSR firm, KLD, paid researchers and people like you."
SIRIS -
Sustainable Investment Research Institute P/L
(Australia)
"The Sustainable Investment Research Institute (SIRIS)
is a dedicated, specialist research group, providing
sustainability and governance investment research and
investment product manufacture."
SCORIS (U.S.A.)
Scoris:
Sustainable Investment Research
International.
SocialFinance.ca
(Can.)
"Socialfinance.ca is an online community for all issues related to
social finance in Canada and internationally. It will serve as a central
online platform for the community of the people and organizations that
are advancing the development of a social finance marketspace in
Canada."
Social
Funds (U.S.A.)
Social Funds is a personal finance site devoted to
socially responsible investing.
*Social Investment Forum (U.S.A.)
The Social Investment Forum offers information, contacts and
resources for socially responsible investing.
*Social Investment Organization (Can.)
“The Social Investment Organization is a Canadian association for socially
responsible investing.”
*SRI
Studies (U.S.A.)
SRI Studies is a great website for investors interested
in the impact of social screening on investment performance.
Sustainable Investing
(U.S.A.)
Sustainable Investing:
"We are building a brighter, greener, more equitable future by helping
each other find investments that are good for people and the planet."
Sustainable Investment Research International Group (Switzerland)
Sustainable Investment Research International Group:
Provider of global research on socially
responsible investing.
Terror Free Investing (U.S.A.)
Terror Free Investing offers help to identify -- and screen-out from your portfolio --
companies that operate in UN recognized terrorist sponsored states.
The Corporate
Library (U.S.A.)
"The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm providing corporate
governance data, analysis & risk assessment tools."
*Transnationale
(France)
"Transnationale provides comprehensive information on more
than 12,000 companies around the world. We report social and
environmental behaviour..."
*UK Social Investment
Forum (U.K.)
The UK Social Investment Forum is the UK association for socially
responsible investing.
*UNEP FI
Stocks (Switzerland)
"The United Nations Environmental Program Finance Initiative: "[Researches
the] materiality of Social, Environmental
and
Corporate Governance Issues to Equity Pricing. 12 firms, 9 nations, 5
continents, more than $1.6 trillion under management."
VIGEO (France)
VIGEO:
A European leader in
corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investing.
Your Ethical
Money
(U.K.)
"Learn about how and where your money is invested,
search for green and ethical financial products, and
find out how you can help make finance more
sustainable." |
