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GreenMoney Journal - publishing since 1992
Fall 2010 issue
Socially Responsible Investing – Better Companies, Better Communities
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SRI Around The World: The Positive Challenge
The U.S. SRI industry provides us with an abundance of news, but GreenMoney still looks to see what
else we can be doing. Covering international SRI during our 10th anniversary year made sense in
theory, but it is impossible to report on all of it; good news abounds in the UK, Europe, Asia,
Australia and Canada. There are dozens of screened mutual funds, new pension regulations,
investment research firms, several new SRI indexes from Dow Jones and FTSE, trade associations,
publications, and, of course, a growing market of investors. In addition, numerous SRI conferences
have been held over the last several years from
London to Hong Kong. Later this year, two more
international events are scheduled: "Ethical Investment Management Seminar" on June 18-19 in London
and the "Triple Bottom Line Conference" on November 7-8 in Brussels. For more agenda and speaker
information visit the conference's web sites at- www.euromoneyseminars.com and www.tbli.org.
The US-based Social Investment Forum (SIF) saw the growth in SRI around the world coming
several years ago and started the SIF International Working Group. The Group covers a wide variety
of key topics including access to international SRI information, international "right to know"
legislation, strategies for expanding SRI, international shareholder advocacy, and trends in global
sourcing and production. The International SRI Working Group, chaired by Mark Regier of MMA Praxis
Funds, will play an increasingly important role as SRI develops around the world including a
potential new partnership to produce a global SRI Trends Report. Also note that there are several
international or global (includes U.S. companies) SRI funds already on the market from U.S. mutual
fund companies, including Calvert, Citizens, MMA Praxis, Portfolio 21 and Walden.
To
launch our international SRI coverage, we've asked some top people to inform us what is happening
in their region of the world. In the following two articles, Cassandra Higgs of UK Social
Investment Forum and Timo W.M. van den Brink, of Triple P Performance Centre in The Netherlands
share the good SRI news. Online at- www.greenmoney.com we have included several more international
SRI articles and resources.
Across the ocean we go....
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