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...environmental investment vehicles, new ones will keep being created. "There is a lot of demand for these eco-products," says Ronald van der Ham, assistant director of equity structuring for ABN Amro, and that is what's driving "the constant stream of new indices and new funds being launched." Lipper FERI, a mutual-fund information provider in London, estimates that Europe's environmental and ecological equity funds alone raised nearly $8 billion in the first three quarters of 2007, almost $4 billion more than...
...like the hard-working and trusting investors that most of them are. The gut-wrenching comparison that best illustrates that something may be amiss: in 2005, the average diversified stock fund returned 6.7%; bond investors gained under 1%; the average stock rose just 3%, according to market tracker Lipper. Those seriously sub-par returns don't square with a record Wall Street payday...
...like bonds and cash. Yet often they don't. Enter life-cycle funds. Investors pick a fund based on the year they plan to retire and let a professional manager do the rest, gradually swapping investments as the years go by. Michael Porter, senior research analyst at investment tracker Lipper Inc., calls it "fast-food investing...
...responsible mutual funds, which invest in companies that meet nonfinancial standards like environmental friendliness and respect for workers' rights. Assets in such funds have jumped 156% over the past five years, to $31.9 billion, while the fund industry as a whole has grown just 22%, according to fund tracker Lipper. But a recent study by environmentalist Paul Hawken suggests investors might be getting more than they bargained for. Hawken, who runs the Natural Capital Institute in San Francisco, found socially responsible funds owning companies like Iraq-entangled Halliburton, tobacco-products maker Altria and weapons manufacturer Raytheon...
...Lipper said that one of the main factors which provide the setting for teens to becoming mothers is “not having a viable ambition.” This, she said, is where ambitious Harvard students can help. “Harvard students have so much to offer in energy and passion,” Lipper said, “and they can incite younger generations to hope for change.” This is exactly what these young girls need, starting from an early...