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What is the Socially Responsible Investment Boom?Socially respnsible investing is how Conscious Capitalists put money where their heart is, by buying into corporations whose environmental and social standards reflect their own values. Socially responsible investing, sustainable investing or ethical investing, describes an investment strategy which seeks to maximize both financial return and social good.

Socially responsible investors favor corporate best practices that promote environmental stewardship, consumer protection, human rights and diversity.

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What is socially responsible investing?

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Socially responsible investing can promote wealth, and a healthier world. Most of us think of investing as putting our hard-earned money to work in stocks or mutual funds. We hope (and pray) that we’ve made good choices so that our money will yield a decent return. We hope that we’ve invested in the “right thing.”

What does it mean to invest in the “right thing?” Obviously, an investment that makes us money is right in one sense. What about an investment that affirms our values and reflects our desire to do something positive for society and our planet?

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Socially Responsible Investing for Idiots

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By Michael Grodsky

If I have to be an idiot, at the least I’m a green idiot. I believe in clean air, corporate responsibility, community activism, licorice, pizza and Thai food. And healthy living, freedom, and of course freedom raisins.

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Not so long ago, the phrase “socially responsible investing” might have brought to mind environmentalists keeping their investment dollars out of companies they believed to be damaging the Earth or animal rights activists rejecting companies who tested their products on harmless creatures.

As the socially responsibly investing, or SRI, sector has grown, its definition has also diversified. Today the phrase encompasses any investment strategy targeted at aligning an individual’s portfolio with their personal convictions. The Social Investment Forum’s 2005 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States identified $2.29 trillion under professional management involved in one or more of the three primary socially responsible investment strategies.

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By understanding the performance of socially responsible stocks, individual socially responsible stock, the socially responsible investor can gain the profits of socially mindful investing, either through individually socially responsible investments, or by engaging with socially responsible investment funds and socially responsible funds. In addition, the article also confers the sustainable investing approach in investing with ethics, green investing, values investing, and socially responsible investments.

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The Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) emphasizes that diversification is critical for minimizing your risk exposure. Diversification is a core value in successfully investing and it is no different for socially responsible investments (SRI).

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If you’re an investor who is concerned about the impact of corporations on the environment and society, then socially responsible investing (SRI) is a growing sector where you will find securities that fit with your philosophy. SRI is a recognized focus within the investment community.

Socially responsible investments are analyzed on a global scale. The SRI agenda is to promote a set of values which are considered to be ethical and “Earth friendly” by investing in companies which exhibit these values in their corporate structure, in the workplace, in their labor practices, in their concern for the environment, and in their impact on the community (including respect for the rights of native peoples). SRI intentionally excludes certain business sectors which are deemed to be unhealthy for the planet, such as weapons, tobacco and gambling.

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