This article appeared in the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza on September 26, 2008
A growing number of people are investing to achieve change – change in the future of their communities, the environment and the world. As a result, over the last ten years, the amount of assets managed according to socially responsible criteria grew at a faster rate than the entire universe of managed assets in the United States. Socially responsible investing (SRI) assets rose more than 258% from $639 billion in 1995 to $2.29 trillion in 2005.
Sri is an investment process that considers the social and environmental consequences of investments, both positive and negative, within the context of rigorous financial analysis. Social investment managers often overlay a qualitative analysis of corporate policies, practices and impacts onto the traditional quantitative analysis of profit potential.
Today, nearly one out of every ten dollars under professional management in the United States is involved in socially responsible investing. According to the Social Investment Forum’s most recent biennial report, $2.3 trillion out of the $24.4 trillion in total assets under management are in professionally managed portfolios utilizing one or more of the three core strategies that define SRI: Screening, Share-holder Advocacy and Community Investing.
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