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"70% increase since 2007 in the number of investors capitalizing on environmental trends [and] 54% of investors plan to invest in environmental technology over the next year."
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Allianz Global
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(USA) February 2010

"Canadian investors are generally favourable towards SRI. A third (32%) said they are 'very' or 'somewhat' interested. [Another] 55 per cent indicated that they would consider SRI if the return was 'as good or better' than other investments... The majority of investors surveyed view SRIs as 'futuristic' (78%) and 'a win-win for the individual and society' (77%)."
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(Canada) October 2011

"European HNWI [High Net Worth Individuals] Sustainable Investment market... approximately €729 billion, representing an average of about 11% of European HNWIs’ portfolios as of December 31, 2009. This is a growth rate of 35% over the two-year period since the data was previously collected."
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(EU) September 2010

 

Blogs Related To Ethical Investing

I have found these blogs posting useful commentaries related to many facets of green/socially responsible/ethical investing, and written by knowledgeable authors.

However, please note that opinions expressed in these blogs are those of the authors themselves and not of Investing for the Soul. (Concerning such points, please refer to our disclaimer at the bottom of this page.)

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship     (U.S.A.)
Covers topics related to ethical investing and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Dorothy Hinchcliffe's FA Green Blog                      (U.S.A.)
"Dorothy Hinchcliff is editor of FA online and FA green, as well as managing editor of Financial Advisor magazine."

Finance for a Sustainable Recovery                      (U.K.)
"This is UKSIF’s blog on creating a robust operating framework for sustainable and responsible financial services. It covers laws, regulation, fiscal measures, voluntary standards, skill requirements and cultural norms."

Global Islamic Finance Centre                              (Global)
"Sharing the knowledge and information on Islamic finance..."

Hazel Henderson's Instablog                                (U.S.A.)
"Hazel Henderson is author of Ethical Markets: Growing The Green Economy (2007) and co-creator with the Calvert Group of the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators regularly updated at www.Calvert-Henderson.com."

Henderson Global Investors                                  (U.K.)
"The blog presents a series of short posts from the Henderson SRI team for our investors and other stakeholders. We aim to share our views and approach on key issues relating to sustainable and responsible investment."

Reflections on Ethical Business                              (U.K.)
"Musings on corporate responsibility, [by] Toby Webb, founder of a business intelligence company called Ethical Corporation. For eight years [they have] produced a regular business magazine, [conducted] conferences, and research on ethics and business."

Social Finance blog                                            (Canada)
"socialfinance.ca is an online platform for the community of people and organizations that are actively trying to advance the development of a social finance marketspace in Canada."

Socially Responsible Investing                             (U.S.A.)
"Positive screening for Corporate Governance, Environment, Labor, Diversity, & Community. Negative screening for "sin stocks" (i.e., tobacco) will not be utilized. Focus on individual stocks, not mutual funds."

Socially Responsible Investing                              (U.S.A.)
A blog by Blue Summit Financial. Covers a variety of subjects related to investing, insurance, and personal finance--all from a socially responsible investing perspective.

SRI-Extra                                                         (Emerging markets)
"SRI-Extra covers the art and science of integrating environment, social and corporate governance [ESG] factors into investment. Comments are global with coverage of emerging markets, especially Africa."

SRImonitor                                                       (Canada)
"News and views on the world of socially responsible investing in Canada."

Sustainable Investment                                      (U.K.)
"This 'sustainable investment' blog is a way of inviting comment from anyone engaged in sustainable investment on where the 'socially responsible investment' industry should go next and whether/how I can contribute to that."

The KLD blog                                                     (U.S.A.)
"Commentary and insight into sustainable investing."

What Investors Really Want: a blog by Meir Statman (U.S.A.)
Meir Statman is one of the world's top socially responsible-ethical investing researchers and winner of the Moskowitz Price for SRI research.

William's Socially Responsible Investing Blog             (U.S.A.)
"By William Donovan, About.com Guide to Socially Responsible Investing."

 

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