Take the Powerball Winnings and Invest Written By: Miranda Marquit 2007-08-27 12:43:23 If you were a lotto winner, where would you put your Powerball winnings?
There are many different types of socially conscious investing, but a particularly effective method is proxy voting, where shareholders instigate change from within. Individual investors have the power to influence the way a company or a fund does business. And foundations, especially, can leverage their influence to ensure that the companies and funds they invest in work toward goals that are in line with guiding principles. All investors can become better informed as to what proposals are out there when you read the Proxy Season Preview 2008, the fourth annual effort from As You Sow and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
The Blue Way: How to Profit by Investing in a Better World Written By: Miranda Marquit 2007-10-19 14:51:39 Most people buy into the idea that socially responsible companies must necessarily be less successful than companies with an emphasis on the bottom line. The point of "The Blue Way: How to Profit by Investing in a Better World" is to dispel what the authors consider to be a myth and show how socially responsible investors can earn good returns and influence the future by making decisions that encourage a better world.
So far, this is hands-down the largest commitment to global warming that any company worldwide has put forth. This amount includes the $10 billion that the company has already committed to reducing their own carbon footprint, largely by means of decreasing energy consumption at the 15,000 properties worldwide that it owns or rents.
The End of Socially Responsible Investing? Written By: Michelle Haimoff 2008-10-01 17:34:53 Whenever I get into a conversation about socially responsible investing, the other person usually says, "Do people really care about socially responsible stocks? Don’t people just care about making money?"
