Socially Responsible Investing: Reaching New Heights
Socially Responsible Investing: Reaching New Heights
Summary
The GreenMoney Journal is an award-winning publication and website that has focused on the Green economy since 1992. GreenMoney's goal is to help individuals and companies align their money with their values from their local farmers market to the stock market. Founder and publisher by Cliff Feigenbaum is also the co-author of 'Investing With Your Values'.
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Last year ended with some great news for the SRI industry. The Social Investment Forum (SIF) states in their latest Trends Report that Sustainable & Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) in the U.S. has continued to grow at a faster pace than the broader universe of conventional investment assets under professional management. At the start of 2010, professionally managed assets following SRI strategies stood at $3.07 trillion, a rise of more than 380 percent from $639 billion in 1995, the year of the SIF Foundation’s first Trends Report. Over the same period, the broader universe of assets under professional management increased only 260 percent from $7 trillion to $25.2 trillion. During the financial crisis from 2007 to 2010 the overall universe of professionally managed assets has remained roughly flat while SRI assets, as documented in the report, have enjoyed healthy growth. There are more details from the Trends Report in this spring issue.
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