The Congressional Human Rights Caucus is pressuring mutual fund companies voluntarily to divest their holdings in companies that do business in Sudan.
Henderson Global Investors, the Hartford, Conn.-based unit of Henderson Global Investors Ltd. of London, has launched the Henderson Industries of the Future Fund.
With a shot at becoming a $1 trillion market in little more than a decade, carbon trading is poised to take a major step forward in the United States.
There are many shades of green — and there are many varieties of green funds.
The socially concious mutual fund was fined $500,000 for violating investment restrictions.
Stung by media and union criticism that their proxy votes are in the pockets of corporate management, the mutual fund industry is fighting back.
In a move that likely will make environmentalist and actor Ed Begley Jr. proud, financial services firms are taking steps to make their offices green.
Ten years after the Department of Labor gave its blessing to socially conscious investments in defined contribution plans, the area finally has come of age.
Crude oil prices soared today on the news of an Israeli Air Force exercise that experts say was a show of force aimed at Iran.
The firm issued a statement at a shareholders’ meeting at which Investors Against Genocide had raised the issue through shareholder proxy voting.
Activist groups urging fund firms to divest from companies doing business in Sudan are finding evidence that stocks of some of the companies have delivered lower returns than some of their peers that have no connection to the country.
The market may be drifting, but many of America's 60 million Roman Catholics are sure of the investment path they have chosen: mutual funds guided by Catholic ethical and moral principles.
A growing number of businesses are finding that they can do well by doing good.
Tools designed to help investors avoid investments in countries that sponsor terrorism or genocide, or that violate the human rights of their citizens, are the latest offerings from financial services firms.
The number of mutual funds voting against climate change resolutions declined from 77.8% in 2004 to 65% in 2007.
Screening companies for their ties to countries deemed sponsors of terror is a concept that seems to intrigue investors.
Expanding into what some industry observers see as a significant growth area, Sentinel Asset Management Inc. last week launched two funds focused on socially conscious investing.
As with all of the firm's funds, socially-conscious investing criteria -- including environmental, social and governance considerations — will be given priority.
The fight against global warming is making carbon emissions the hot new commodity.
The FTSE Group and Conflict Securities Advisory Group have teamed up to roll out the Terror-Free Index Series.
