Media Coverage of
Investing for the Soul

• Wall Street Journal
• MarketWatch
• BNN (Business News Network)
• The Financial Post
• Rogers Television’s Money Line
• CBC One’s Metro Morning
• 680 News Radio
• Environmental News Network
• The Catholic Register
• More…

Editorials

• Do-It-Yourself Ethical Investing Pays!
• How Ethics Benefits Corporate Profits
• Is Ethical Investment Failing To Keep Up?
• The Goldman Ethics Fuss
• Sustainability Profits Companies
• ESG Yields Profits
• Does Corporate Social Responsibility Increase Profits?
• Short Term Gain, Long Term Pain,
• India, Ancient Economic Behemoth, to Overtake China
• Frugality: A New Normal for Developed World Consumers
• Invest Ethically for ‘All Good’ Returns
• Investors Rush to Cash In on Climate Change
• Can US Bankers and Politicians be Truthful?
• Ethical Investors Successfully Engage Companies and Governments
• Religion: A Force in Ethical & Green Investing
• Unethical Investing By Charities
• Investing Ethically?
• The Rise of Islamic Finance
• US Government and Financial Elites Deceive Us
• The Ethics of Gold
• Unethical Statistics Lead Us Astray
• See all…

Shareholder Values

 
"Forty-five percent of U.S. households prefer an environmental, social and governance (ESG) approach to investing… Among those between the ages of 30 and 39, this increases to 64%, and for those younger than 30, it is 67%."
-- Cerulli Associates
   (USA)
    October 2018

"The vast majority of Canadian investors are interested in responsible investments (RI) that incorporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, and they would be more likely to choose responsible investments if their financial advisor suggested suitable RI options for them."
-- Responsible
    Investment
    Association (RIA)
    (Canada)
    June 2017

"70% of people [in UK] want to invest ethically but the financial services industry is failing to respond." Referencing research by Abundance.
-- Acquisition
    International
    (UK) June 2015

July 19, 2009

Blogs for Ethical Investors

by Ron Robins*

These blogs post useful commentaries related to many facets of green/socially responsible/ethical investing and are written by knowledgeable authors. Blogs that I especially like for ethical investors are marked with an asterisk.

Obviously, the opinions expressed in these blogs are those of the authors themselves and may or may not reflect the opinions of Investing for the Soul. (See disclaimer below.)

 Socially Responsible/Sustainable/Ethical Investing

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."

*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."

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

*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."

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."

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

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."

Islamic Finance

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

Corporate Social Responsibility

Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship          (U.S.A.)
There are actually three blogs here. (1) Director′s Blog, (2) Center News & Events… new research, upcoming events, corporate citizenship news, and opinion from guest bloggers, and (3) In Good Company: Inspiring stories about how our members put corporate citizenship into practice.

For the most current listing of blogs that ethical investors might like to visit, see Blogs Related to Ethical Investing.

* Ron Robins, MBA, is founder, Investing for the Soul (http://investingforthesoul.com/), Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. He advocates, teaches, and writes on the subject of ethical investing. To contact him, e-mail to Ron Robins or call 705-635-3034.

© Ron Robins, 2009.