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CDFIs: Community Investing as Part of Your SRI Portfolio

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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) has become a nearly $3 trillion dollar industry in the United States.  Investors in SRI use screening and shareholder advocacy to influence corporations to improve their environmental practices, social impact and governance issues.  What I was surprised to find out was that community investing is the fastest growing area of SRI.  […]

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Why is Korea Cutting Chicago’s Carbon Emissions?

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Apega/WENN Today’s Chicago Tribune business section has a stunning report on the Republic of South Korea’s $25 million plan to reduce energy consumption at some of downtown Chicago’s largest skyscrapers. The operation will focus on retrofitting HVAC and lighting systems in up to 14 buildings. Joining Korea in the agreement are the Building Owners and

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What The BP Disaster Teaches Us: Natural Gas Matters

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“Perfect is the enemy of the good.” — Voltaire [Dictionnaire Philosophique — 1764] Yesterday’s news from the Gulf was better than it has been: BP has begun to make consequential strides at plugging the deep-water oil leak. Since the explosion, we’ve seen dramatic responses from the left (no more oil and gas exploration), the right

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Growth Potential: The New Intersection of Meaning, Metrics and Money

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Even a year gone since the failure of Lehman, fundamental questions remain regarding the core underlying assumptions of our financial system. Though currently derivatives trading and black boxes appear out of favour, what will replace them in terms of helpful and productive uses of capital still has yet to be determined. This question was what the Conference

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Do Shareholders Impact Sustainable Business Practices? (Part 2 of 2)

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What if you call your HR department or brokerage firm and discover you don’t have SRI options available with your 401(k)?  Does that mean you can’t be a socially responsible investor?  Of course not.  If you own shares in a company, you have partial ownership and certain privileges.  Corporations mail out their annual reports containing

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Do Shareholders Impact Sustainable Business Practices? (Part 1 of 2)

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When you disagree with a company’s sustainable or lack of sustainable business practices, what do you do?  You contact the company.  You sign a petition.  You boycott their products.  You inspired others to “vote with their feet” or “vote with their dollars.”  You pride yourself in the fact that you don’t shop at Walmart or

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GIIRS is a Bridge that will Make More Money Flow to Good

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[social_buttons] A bridge is about to open up that will make things easier but safer for people who want make their investments consistent with their values. Just like a bridge makes traveling between two islands easier, the new rating system to be unveiled at Socap09 will be like taking a train instead of having to

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Towards a ‘Green’ Economy

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Market Facilitation in Ecosystem Services; Contemporary Developing Cases in the UK Is there reason to believe that there maybe profit to be made by investing in eco investments while conserving the environment? There does exist some scepticism about the market’s involvement in green initiatives. Even though research conducted by Frost & Sullivan about the telecom

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Green Municipal Bonds – Economic Crisis Solved

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Think Globally – Act Locally. Green Municipal Bonds offer the opportunity to rescue the economy and the environment.  Local governments are needlessly watching their economies disintegrate, waiting and begging for handouts from Washington D.C., while all along the power to save their economies and help the environment lies in their hands – Green Municipal Bonds.

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Warren Buffett Talks About the Economy on Nightly Business Report’s 30th Anniversary Show

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Warren Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway says that President Obama’s #1 job is to fix is the economy but even though we have “got the right person in the operating room, but it doesn’t mean the patient is going to leave the hospital tomorrow.” In an exclusive interview with PBS’s Nightly Business Report, Warren

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Mr. Buffett’s Buying American, How About You?

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The economy is in crisis, unemployment is on the rise, and there is a general feeling of fear in the market.  Where some see despair, Warren Buffett sees opportunity.  In a recent Op-Piece in the New York Times, Mr. Buffett explains his reasons for investing in US Equities and urges others to do the same.  He

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From Mortgage to Bailout: How Did The Problem Arise?

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As the government begins to unleash a highly criticized bailout plan for Wall Street’s toxic mortgage backed assets, it is worth taking a step back to understand how the problem actually arose.
Investing In Real Estate

It all started with real estate investing which involves the purchase, ownership and sale of real estate for profit. Real estate is an asset form with limited liquidity relative to other investments, it is also capital intensive (although capital may be gained through mortgage leverage) and is highly cash flow dependent. The primary cause of investment failure for real estate is that the investor goes into negative cash flow for a period of time that is not sustainable, often forcing them to resell the property at a loss or go into insolvency.

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Access Capital Strategies Opens Its Community Investment Fund to All Investors

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Access Capital Strategies, a pioneer in the development of a high credit quality nationwide community investment vehicle, announced it has received regulatory approval to open the $500 million Access Capital Strategies Community Investment Fund (the Fund) [XACSX] to all investors. The Company also announced that Voyageur Asset Management, a Minneapolis-based firm specializing in fixed income

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JPMorgan and Innovest launch Green bond index

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JPMorgan and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors recently launched the JPMorgan Environmental Index-Carbon Beta (JENI-Carbon Beta), the first bond index designed to address the risks of global warming.  The JENI-Carbon Beta, a United States high-grade corporate bond index, enables credit investors to make return-driven investment decisions that systematically take into account risks and opportunities issuers face as

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Social(k) Retirement Platform Embraced By Socially Conscious Companies in First Year

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Before 2006, if companies wanted a diverse socially responsible retirement plan, it did not exist.  Most retirement plans offered only one or two options, if any. Then along came Springfield, MA-based Social(k), the nation’s most diverse socially responsible retirement plan offering more than 100 screened socially responsible funds to choose from! In its first year,

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Community Reinvestment Fund, USA Receives Two-year, $300,000 Grant from Piper Jaffray

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Community Reinvestment Fund, USA (CRF), a nonprofit organization that connects community development lenders with the capital resources of Wall Street, recently announced Piper Jaffray awarded the organization a $300,000 grant. Piper Jaffray will provide this grant in two installments of $150,000 over two years. CRF will use this funding to foster community revitalization in underserved

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