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...additional cost of providing the information dictated by the code of conduct, which could potentially lead to smaller shareholder profits. Certainly there are benefits to maximizing the return on Harvard’s endowment, but there need not be a stark choice between profitability and environmental consciousness. The KLD Domini 400, an index of socially responsible companies, has outperformed the S&P 500 for 1-year, 3-year, 5-year and 10-year returns. Concern for the environment does not invite imminent financial collapse...
...investing vehicle the Vice Fund. And its strategy is no joke. Over the past five years, stocks from the sectors represented in the Vice Fund have, in aggregate, appreciated about four times as much as the S&P 500--and nearly 11 times as much as those in the Domini 400 index of socially responsible stocks. While more than 90% of the Vice Fund's holdings will be in battleships, blackjack, booze and butts, its managers plan to hedge a bit into stocks like Harley-Davidson. "It's not really a vice," fund co-manager Dan Ahrens, 36, admits...
Innovest's ratings are of particular interest to a growing class of fund managers, including pioneers Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments and Reto Ringger of Sustainable Asset Management, who limit their investments to companies that meet certain environmental and social criteria. Assets in U.S. socially screened funds surpassed $2 trillion last year, a 36% increase since 1999 and a rate of growth 1.5 times as fast as the average of other professionally managed U.S. funds, according to a Social Investment Forum study...
...years later (and much to my family's chagrin at first), I married an artist from the Dominican Republic. In 1996 my son was born. Raul Ariel Jesus de Todos los Santos Perez-Hinojosa, we joked, would be the first Domini-Mex New Yorker. My boy is now 5 years old, and my daughter Maria Yurema Guadalupe de los Indios Perez-Hinojosa just turned 3 this past Cinco de Mayo (and, no, it wasn't a scheduled C-section...
Bridgeway Aggressive Growth .48% 36.1% Pax World Balanced .10% 12.2% Citizens Emerging Growth -32.3% 19.4% Domini 400 Social Index* -27.0% 3.3% Standard & Poors...