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articles that not only
imbibe the spirit of Investing for the Soul, but also are highly
informative and inspirational. Click on category that interests you:
Ethical Investing
Know what you own. Investors can screen US
mutual funds on issues that are important to them. Calvert Funds, USA.
China plans 1st "socially responsible" mutual fund,
reporting by Charlie Zhu; Editing by Edmund Klamann,
March 11, 2008, Reuters, China.
UKSIF and REA launch FiNeSse, February 29, 2008,
UK.
Board connections and mutual fund returns, by
Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher
Malloy, National Bureau of Economic research, USA.
Imitate or Differentiate? Evaluating the validity of
corporate social responsibility ratings, by
Aaron K. Chatterji, Fuqua School of Business, Duke
University and David I. I. Levine, Haas School of
Business, University of California, Berkeley. USA.
Ethical funds' exposure not so green, by Tom
Stevenson, February 6, 2008, The Daily Telegraph,
UK.
Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable
Corporations Announced in Davos, January 23,
2008, Corporate Knights Magazine, Canada.
100 Best
Corporate Citizens 2007, January, 2008, CRO
Magazine, USA.
The EIRIS Green & Ethical Funds Directory,
January, 2008, EIRIS, UK.
Investors Against Genocide, USA.
IMCA Journal of Investment Consulting Publishes New
Paper on Socially Responsible Investments,
November 7, 2007, Marketwire.com, USA.
Ethical Fund comparison | HL's ethical fund
comparison tool, Hargreaves and Lansdown, UK.
First Annual Corporate Knights Ranking of Canadian
Cleantech, 2007, Corporate Knights, Canada.
Five religious-based mutual funds that keep the
faith, by Murray Coleman, October 28, 2007,
MarketWatch, USA.
The Subprime Meltdown and SRI: Engage, Avoid,
Predict, by Bill Baue, September 12, 2007,
SocialFunds.com, USA.
ETFs for Clean Energy Fans,
by Vaughan Scully, August 27, 2007, appeared on
Businessweek.com; source Standard & Poor's, USA.
Investors reap ethical rewards,
by Hilary Osborne, August 29, 2007, Guardian
Unlimited, UK.
Top 20 companies: Climate change leaders show the
way, by Mike
Scott, July 26, 2007, Climate Change Corp.com, USA.
Introducing GS SUSTAIN,
Goldman Sachs, USA. (Top sustainability companies
according to Goldman Sachs.)
The Price of Ethics: Evidence from Socially
Responsible Mutual Funds, by Luc Renneboog,
Jenke ter Horst, Chendi Zhang, published by the
Social Science Research Network.
THOMSON EXTEL AND THE UK SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM
ANNOUNCE RESULTS OF THE SRI & SUSTAINABILITY SURVEY,
June 29, 2007, UK. (Analyzes the ethical investing
research capabilities of investment banks and
stock-brokerages.)
Socially Responsible Investing With ETFs,
by Eleanor Laise, July 8, 2007, The Wall Street
Journal online, USA.
DC Plans & SRI in the USA,
June 5, 2007, Mercer Investment Consulting, USA.
Green Leaders: A guide to the world's greenest
companies, by Karen Attwood, June 1, 2007,
The Independent, UK.
Smart money pours into ethical funds, by Tom
Stevenson, May 11, 2007, Telegraph.co.uk., UK.
2007 World's Most Ethical Companies,
May, 2007, Ethisphere Magazine, USA.
Global Warming may affect nearly two thirds of
active investors' investment decisions,
March 14, 2007, The Association of Investment
Companies, UK.
Canadian Socially Responsible Investment Review
2006, March 2007, Social Investment
Organization, Canada. See also,
Social investment assets soar,
by Tavia Grant, March 22, 2007, The Globe & Mail,
Canada.
Reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
by the Largest Listed Companies in Eleven Central
and Eastern European (CEE) Countries; Second-Time
Comparison with Peers in BRIC and Ukraine,
May 8, 2007, CSRwire.com, USA.
SRI screens have little impact on returns: study
by Steven Lamb, March 12, 2007, Advisor.ca, Canada.
100 Best [US] Corporate
Citizens 2007, by Corporate Responsibility Officer (CRO), February
15, 2007.
The Global 100: Role models in sustainable business practices, by
Innovest Strategic Value
Advisors, appearing in Business Week, January 29, 2007.
European Oil
Companies: 'Climate Change' is Corporate Social Responsibility Job No.
1', by
www.innovations-report.com
January 18, 2007.
F&C Investments (UK) reveals insatiable public appetite for ethical
stocks and bonds, January 11, 2007.
Launch of Three New Clean Tech Indexes Culminates Banner Year for Green
Investing, by Bill Baue, SocialFunds.com, December 29, 2006.
Institutional Investors in France Foresee Continuing Growth of Socially
Responsible Investing - Ethical Investing, by Bill Baue, SocialFunds.com, December 14,
2006.
Eurosif Socially Responsible Investment
(SRI) Study reveals a European SRI Market valued at €1 trillion, September 12, 2006.
TIAA-CREF Releases Participant Survey on Socially Responsible
Investing, July13, 2006.
SRI (socially responsible - ethical investing) funds enjoying healthy
returns, survey concludes, by Doug
Watt, Advisor.ca, June 9, 2006.
2006 Guide to Canada's Socially Responsible Mutual Funds, by
Corporate Knights. Discusses how funds rank in performance as well as
providing a simple and valuable guide as to each funds screening
criteria.
Christian advisors offered certification. Charitable giving, ethical
investing, socially responsible investing, emphasized, Today's Family News, May 24,
2006.
Principles for Responsible
Investment, by United Nations Environmental Program Finance
Initiative. Endorsed by institutions with over US$2 trillion in assets,
April 2006.
New Citizens Advisers Survey Shows Registered Investment Advisors Lag
behind Times, press release by Citizens Advisors, April 24, 2006.
Report on Business magazine releases second annual Corporate Social
Responsibility ranking, (Canada), February 25, 2006.
(Information compiled by Jantzi Research.)
Regarding Environmental Sustainability &
Social Performance in Business
10 Worst Corporate Polluters, by Harry Hurt III,
March 2008, Conde Nast Portfolio, USA.
Launch of OASIS The FIRST U.S. ORGANIC standard for
the BEAUTY AND personal care industry, press
release, March 5, 2008, Natural Newswire,
USA.
Execs won over by business case for sustainable
investment, by Sarah Griffiths, February 14,
2008, BusinessGreen, USA.
Corporate social responsibility increases company
value, February 11, 2008, Innovations Report,
Germany.
Studies Deem Biofuels a Greenhouse Threat, by
Elisabeth Rosenthal, February 8, 2008, The New
York Times, USA.
Banks Take Steps Addressing Climate Change but Long
Road Ahead: Report, January 11, 2008,
GreenBiz.com, USA.
Corporate social responsibility - Looking five years
forward and back, by Mallan Baker, January 7,
2008, Ethical Corporation, UK.
Free online ethical company monitor is launched,
by Helen Warrell, November 14, 2007, Third
Sector, UK.
The Six Sins of Greenwashing, November 2007,
TerraChoice, USA.
Carbon Beta & Equity Performance: An Empirical
Analysis, October 2007, Innovest Strategic
Advisors, Canada.
Car makers – who’s the greenest? October 3,
2007, ClimateChangeCorp.com, UK.
The climate change industry takes root, October
31, 2007, Ethical Corporation and ClimateChange.com,
UK.
US firms fall behind Europe in ethical standards,
says Eiris, by Sean O'Grady, September 15, 2007,
The Independent, UK.
Barrick Gold named to Dow Jones Sustainability
Index, September, 7, 2007, CNN Money,
USA.
Leave Only Footprints: Measuring and Managing
Corporate Carbon Emissions, by Bill Baue with
Francesca Rheannon, September 4, 2007,
SocialFunds.com, USA.
23 Organizations Issue Joint Report Critiquing
Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Initiatives,
September 6, 2007, Natural Newswire, USA.
Named and shamed: City's ethical dunces, by Ruth
Sunderland, Heather Stewart and Zoe Wood, September
2, 2007, The Observer, UK.
Social Responsibility,
May, 2007, International Standards Association.
NRDC Advances Regulation of Nanotechnology to
Protect Human Health,
May 16, 2007, NRDC, USA.
Value remains main concern of consumers,
by James Harding, March 28, 2007, Timesonline,
UK.
Sundance Channel Creates Advisory Committee for THE GREEN(TM),
presented by Robert Redford. Weekly environmental programming block
launches April 17, 2007, PR Newswire, February 15,2007.
In the
War for Talent, Good Companies with Corporate Social Responsibility
Policies, Finish First, CSRwire.com,
January 21, 2007.
Over 15 million UK shoppers buying ethical Christmas presents, says
Friends Provident, December 6, 2006.
Top Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Articles In China For 2006, by Danny Levinson, ChinaCSR.com,
December 5, 2006.
Most M.B.A. Students Think Profits and Social Responsibility Can
Coexist, Survey Finds,
by Katherine Mangan,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 24, 2006.
Study slams ‘trivial’
corporate social responsibility reports, by Rob Edwards, Environment Editor,
Sunday Herald (Scotland), June 25, 2006.
Concerning Economic
Measurement & Economics
What’s Wrong with the GDP
(Gross Domestic Product) as a Measure of Progress, by
Redefining Progress, U.S.A.
Contents of the Genuine
Progress Indicator, by Redefining Progress, U.S.A.
The Genuine Progress Indicator attempts to portray more accurately than
the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measure, the true economic and social
welfare of society.
Index of Sustainable
Economic Welfare (ISEW) by Friends of the Earth, UK.
Are socially
responsible investors different from conventional investors? A
comparison across six countries, by Geoffrey Williams, Associate
Professor of Financial Economics,
Nottingham University Business School, December 2005.
Stock
Market Values Responsible Companies, Says New Prizewinning Study, by
GreenBiz.com, September 29, 2005.
Spiritually Related
& Spirituality Information
Indian index has a religious edge, by Raja M,
January 23, 2008, Asia Times, Hong Kong.
Faiths
will use their billions to back ethical business,
by November 14, 2007, Ekklesia, UK.
New
survey says people think Britain is in moral decline
and religion could help, September 7, 2007,
Ekklesia, UK.
Can
This Black Box See Into the Future?
A global team, coordinated by Princeton University scientists,
determine the possible physics of a 'collective consciousness.' Their
'black box' has proved remarkably prescient.
The power of nun: taking a lead role in
shareholder activism (providing spirituality information), by G. Jeffrey MacDonald, The
Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2006.
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