Por Bill Holliday

Socially Responsible Investments provide you with the chance to vote with your investments and influence our world. Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing (SRI) is a rapidly growing area of investment. It is outpacing the overall rate of general investment growth.

SRI allows investors the ability to have investments in line with their values. It provides another tool to address important issues. SRI provides a way to support organizations and issues while earning a competitive return. As an example, if someone is concerned about global warming or campaign finance reform, SRI is a strategy to address these issues.

This is meant to be a practical guide. The goal is to help make SRI a reasonable option.

There are different degrees of SRI involvement. SRI can be as simple as using a member owned credit union instead of publically traded banks driven by a profit motivation. It can involve investing in Calvert Community Investment Notes that support international micro-credit and provide semi-annual interest payments and returns the investment at maturity. SRI can involve investing part of the US stock portfolio in a low cost SRI index fund (0.28 expense ratio) that provides SRI screening. It can include purchasing an SRI mutual fund that is active in screening, shareholder advocacy and community investing. 

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