Socially Responsible Investing

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  • Asian Development Bank Launches New Environmental Fund

    The Asian Development Bank has launched a new environmentally based mutual fund.

  • Two Wind Energy ETFs Debut

    Wind energy is the latest resource to be tapped by the ETF market as two products in this sector debuted..

  • Going 'Green' Can Save Firms Millions

    The SEC proposed a rule to decrease the prospectuses of mutual fund firms to summaries of around three pages that could be accessed online.

  • Barclays Launches Global Carbon ETN

    Barclays Bank PLC has introduced its iPath Global Carbon Exchange Traded Note on the NYSE Arca stock exchange.

  • Philanthropic Fund to Provide Aid in Latin America

    Latin America's first social venture capital fund, IGNIA Fund I has now raised $20.6 million in capital commitments.

  • Fidelity on Sudan: We Don't Offer SRI Funds

    A shareholder measure failed to capture enough votes to pass a non-binding resolution aimed at divesting from investments in Sudan.

  • 'Green' Marketing Pushes Seen Working Selectively

    Banks are finding that environmentally themed marketing campaigns can persuade customers to change their habits and even buy new products but that the message's appeal does not apply across all product lines.

  • Green Winds of Change Point to a Sustainable Future

    The White Creek Wind Project was the first major renewable energy project in the Northwest to be developed by public entities, and now other PUDs and electric cooperatives are looking to it as a model for future renewable energy development financings.

  • ETF Spotlights Chinese Solar Stocks

    TheStreet.com: Almost a third of the companies in the new 'TAN' solar exchange-traded fund are based in China. Christian Magoon, president of Claymore Securities, explains why China and Solar technologies are a moneymaking combination.

  • Craton Closes Debut Cleantech Fund

    Los Angeles-based private equity firm Craton Equity Partners closed its debut Clean Tech fund, corralling $191.5 million for the vehicle. The fund aims to invest in environmentally friendly companies focused on green technology.

  • JPMorgan Issues Corporate Statement on Human Rights

    Issuing its first corporate statement on the issue, JPMorgan Chase & Co. pledged to support the principles of human rights "across all our lines of business and in each region of the world in which we operate."

  • Rangel Introduces Tax Extension Bill

    Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has introduced a bill to extend tax credits and deductions that expired last year or would expire at the end of this year, including tax incentives for renewable energy.

  • Podcast

    Green Investing

    Being green has gone from fringe to fashionable, and investors want a piece of this revolution too. But are these new green investors finding their way to the best opportunities?

  • New Opportunities for Socially Responsible Investing

    The Green Revolution in SRI Investing: Leading indexers have introduced several new "green" benchmarks over the past year, while asset managers have continued to launch new green funds and ETFs.

  • Green Attitude

    Your clients are focused on the environment. Are you?

  • Socially Responsible Mutual Funds

    SRI Chart: A Screening and Advocacy Guide from the Social Investment Forum. Use this chart to determine what social screens including restrictions and positive investments a mutual fund uses.

  • Keeping the Faith

    Faith-based mutual funds represent nearly $16 billion in U.S. assets, making them an important subset of socially conscious funds. For advisors, choosing a faith-based investment strategy for a client begins like any other investment decision understanding your clients' values, goals and objectives.

  • Community Investing

    Over the past decade, community investing has become one of the fastest growing and most compelling segments of socially responsible investing.

  • It's So Easy Being Green

    SeekingAlpha: An analysis of the stocks that were discussed in Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV program that aired on Monday April 21st.

  • God And Mammon

    The ethical investing niche contains the conflicting goals of maximizing profit and maintaining a moral agenda. In the past the majority of investors have struggled to put ethics first, but this could change for investors focusing on the sub-niche of finance complying with Sharia (Islamic law).