Ethical Investing

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

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.

Study slams ‘trivial′ corporate social responsibility reports, by Rob Edwards, Environment Editor, Sunday Herald (Scotland), June 25, 2006.

UK companies are becoming more socially and environmentally responsible, but are the public convinced? press release by Soucewire.com, June 17, 2006.

Consumers’ Definition of Socially Responsible Runs Counter to Established Beliefs, KSBI-TV reports on survey by National Consumers League, May 31, 2006.

How to Determine the Top 100 Sustainable Companies in the World, January 28, 2006.

Corporate Watchdog Radio Program helps find best ethical investing stocks to invest in, press release, January 17, 2006.

Business Ethics Magazine Launches Weekly Radio Program On LIME, Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 114, press release, January 9, 2006.

Dramatic Increase in Corporate Responsibility Reporting, states a KPMG Survey, July 1, 2005.

Canada jumps with two-fold increase in Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, says KPMG Survey, June 15, 2005.

Expectations for Corporate Social Responsibility Rising With Clear Consequences For Not Measuring Up, survey by GlobeScan, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd., April 20, 2005.

ASQ Poll Shows U.S. Companies Lag, but Executives See the Advantage of Using Corporate Social Responsibility, March 08, 2006.

Spiritually Related & Spirituality Information

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.