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Editorials

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• 'Best In Class' Focus Provides Premium Returns
• Blogs for Ethical Investors
• Voluntary Simplicity? An Ethical Investing Perspective
• Can SRI Ratings Predict Stock & Portfolio Performance?
• Can SRI Ratings Predict Corporate Behaviour?
• Investing Returns: Virtue vs. Sin
• We Need Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting
• Top Ethical Investing Indices: A Global Overview
• Advisor: KNOW Your Client. Know their values!
• LOHAS - opportunities for ethical investors
• Everyone becoming a Cultural Creative
• Retiring the GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
• The Media & Government Statistics
• Unethical US Job Numbers?
• Unethical Statistics – the US consumer price index?

Shareholder Values

 
"Of the 1,003 investors surveyed, nearly half (49%) said that over the next 12 months they were likely to invest in a company or mutual fund looking to provide solutions for environmental problems."
-- Allianz Global Investors
    (USA) January 2008

"The survey finds that three-quarters of those interested in finding out more about the ethical credentials of a financial product or service said they are likely to take this into consideration when next buying a financial product or service."
-- Ipsos MORI/EIRIS
    (UK) November 2009

"... nearly half of all [Canadian] advisors said their clients had initiated discussions about ESG [environmental, social and governance] investments."
-- VenGrowth Assset
     Management Inc.
    (Canada) October 2008

GLOBE AND MAIL

Attention News/Business Editors:

Canada's Most Responsible Companies
Announced Today

Report on Business magazine releases second annual Corporate Social
Responsibility ranking

TORONTO, Feb. 25 /CNW/ - Today, Report on Business magazine unveiled its
second annual Corporate Social Responsibility ranking. The ranking was
compiled by Jantzi Research and evaluates the behavior of 109 companies in
13 sectors, covering the categories of community and society, corporate
governance, impact on customers, treatment of employees, the environment and
human rights.

The top-ranked companies in each sector are:
- Automotive - Toyota
- Banking - Citizens Bank
- Fast Food - Starbucks
- Food and Drug Retailing - Sobeys
- Footwear and Apparel - Reebok
- Insurance - Sun Life
- Media - CBC
- Mining - Alcan
- Oil and Gas - Suncor
- Paper and Forest Products - Tembec
- Retailing - Mountain Equipment Co-op
- Technology - Hewlett-Packard
- Telecom - Manitoba Telecom

The comprehensive Corporate Social Responsibility ranking is available in
the March issue of Report on Business magazine, available today in The Globe
and Mail.

Published monthly in The Globe and Mail, Report on Business magazine is
Canada's pre-eminent business publication, offering readers authority and
insight with its award-winning coverage of business and economics. The Globe
and Mail is a division of Bell Globemedia, Canada's premier multi-media
company, which also owns CTV, Canada's leading private broadcaster.

For further information: Nancy Evans, (416) 920-9000
REPORT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE
© 2005 CNW Group Ltd.