Instead of trying to identify which companies will be successful among a group of companies that support socially responsible practices, an investor needs to cast a broad net. Investment options are ...

Socially responsible investing (SRI) is a type of investing strategy that reflects popular views on what is socially responsible and only invests in those businesses that align with those values. SRI ...

In 1970, Milton Friedman famously wrote, "There is one and only one social responsibility of business--to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it ...

BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Barclays Global Investors said Friday it's launched its second exchange-traded fund designed for socially responsible investors. The San Francisco-based unit of Barclays Plc ...

Socially responsible investing (SRI). Environmental, Social, and Governance investing (ESG). Impact investing…and so on… These socially responsible investing ...

In recent years, investors have become increasingly interested in socially responsible investing (SRI), an investment approach that considers social and environmental factors in addition to financial ...

Socially responsible investing was once widely considered an offbeat niche, for hardcore environmentalists rather than serious investors. To some critics, SRI was practically socialism, an attack on ...

Among publicly traded securities, so-called socially responsible stocks may be one of the most controversial categories. Basically, an underlying assumption exists that if you support sustainable ...

Al Gore. That's the man Jim Larson thanks for the growing interest in socially responsible investing. Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," has created "a bunch of interest in green -- especially in ...

Professor Martin Oehmke of the LSE Department of Finance discusses a new approach to socially-responsible finance, based on his award-winning work 'A Theory of Socially Responsible Investment', ...

Investors increasingly want to align investment portfolios with personal values, citing climate change, clean water, and income inequality among the issues in which societal concerns intersect with ...