Toronto, Ontario -- Investors everywhere want a better world, but have great difficulty in discovering how to invest in ways that help to create it. Now in Toronto, on September 18, and again on November 27, Investing for the Soul offers an extraordinary new workshop that solves this problem. It gives investors the chance to peer into the future economy, revealing industries that reflect higher human values.

In addition, this workshop, "Envisioning the Future for Profit & Fulfillment," provides investors with unique tools. These tools will help them to define and apply their specific ecological, spiritual, and other cherished values to investing decisions. By the end of this six-hour workshop, participants will have created a 'big vision' investment picture that incorporates their highest values. They can then take this vision to their investment advisor and transform it into a real investment portfolio and thereby make their contribution to the creation of a better world.
 
Incorporating our prized values in investing does not mean sacrificing investing profits either. Using Morningstar ranking data, The Social Investment Forum (U.S.) showed that mutual funds applying social and environmental screening criteria consistently outperformed mutual funds generally in the years 2001 to 2003. Similarly in Canada, the screened Jantzi Social Index has usually outperformed its unscreened Toronto Stock Exchange index equivalents since it's formation in January 2000.

The "Envisioning the Future for Profit & Fulfillment" workshop continues to gain traction due to the enthusiasm of its course participants. As Marsha Lecour, an educator, writes, "This was the first workshop that I have attended that has provided me with a basis of investing financially for the soul -- this is a very timely workshop."

Studies in the United States by MMA Praxis and from GlobeScan in Canada, show that the vast majority of investors want their investment portfolios to reflect their personal values. Yet, most investment advisors and financial planners are ill-equipped to engage their clients in such discussions.

Frank Miotto, a successful financial advisor in Toronto, has this to say about our workshop and its benefits for investors and those in his profession, "I highly recommend this workshop for both investors and investment advisors alike. Advisors should take it to better service their clients."

The workshops again are on September 18 or November 27, from 9:30am to 4:30pm, at the Novotel Toronto North York Hotel, 3 Park Home Avenue (at Yonge Street), North York, Ontario, Canada. Fee: if paid three weeks before workshop date, CDN$89(plus 7% GS Tax), thereafter CDN$119(plus 7% GS Tax). Fee can also be paid in U.S. dollars. Apply now at http://investingforthesoul.com or call 705-635-3034.