Should you put your money where your heart is? Let's say you agree with Al Gore about global warming - or, on the other hand, you feel that the biggest threat to our society is the corrosion of traditional values.
Uneasy rests the head that wears a halo, it seems. Consider the recent struggles of socially responsible mutual funds, which usually seek out companies with progressive labor practices and product lines that don't pollute or kill.
People who invest in socially responsible mutual funds have been paying for their principles. Such funds tend to avoid energy and mining companies - and those have been two of the market's hottest ...
In a world full of vice and guilty pleasure, investors can rest assured that when it comes to their investments, at least there's one area in their lives where having a conscience can produce hefty returns.
Are investors losing their religion? No way. Just take a look at the number of dollars flowing into faith-based mutual funds.
IMAGINE THAT YOU CARE DEEPLY about the environment and that you want your investments to reflect your values. You might turn to the Sierra Club Stock Fund, a two-year-old mutual fund that promises ...
Investing ethically is hardly a new concept--for thousands of years Jewish law has dictated that all business investment should support the entire community--but only in the past few decades has th...
Back in the 1980s, real investors used to snigger at socially responsible investing (SRI). Who were those do-gooders kidding? Gunmakers, tobacco companies, and environment despoilers wouldn't miss ...
People who once refused to soil their portfolios with General Electric, a known collaborator with the Defense Department, are now crowding into mutual funds that are not contaminated with GE, Exxon...
BY THE TENS OF THOUSANDS, AMERICANS ARE REFUSING TO COMPROMISE their social and political principles in the quest for investment profits. As a result, so- called socially responsible investing -- i...
To put together this list of ethical investments, we asked Franklin Research & Development, which publishes Investing for a Better World (monthly, $19.95 a year; 617-423-6655), to identify the 50 m...
Money Magazine: SMART MOVES updated: Sat Jun 01 1991 00:01:00
-- Don't be suckered out of your savings by a radio talk show host whose seemingly unbiased investment advice is a masked ad for his financial services. Warning signs: his tips are remarkably simil...
Disciples of socially responsible investing have long contended that you don't have to settle for second-rate returns if you put your money in a so-called ethical mutual fund to keep your conscienc...
To 17th-century Puritans, business success was a sign of God's grace -- tangible evidence that they were headed for heaven. For nearly 20 years, Anthony Brown, a taciturn fourth-generation New Engl...
''I'm not a nuts-and-berries kind of guy,'' observes John Baldwin, sounding more like a consummate consumer than a rabid environmentalist as he devours a vanilla ice cream cone at the local McDonal...
Outraged Alaskan citizens have made a T-shirt denouncing Exxon's TANKER FROM HELL a best-selling souvenir. And that's the least of it. In the weeks after the worst U.S. oil spill covered an area bi...
Ethical investing, chortled at by free-marketeers and efficient market maestros who argue it's like boxing with one hand tied behind your back, has turned out to be a real contender. Newsletters, p...
Having thought deeply about the issue for, oh, four seconds, we have no trouble sensing the broad appeal of socially responsible investing. Spiritual redemption and capital appreciation -- friends,...
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