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Socially Responsible Investing INVESTING FOR A CAUSE

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Author
HECTOR GARCIA
UBS Financial Services Inc.
A growing number of people are investing to achieve change in the future of their communities, the environment and the world. Socially responsible investing (SRI) assets rose more than 324 percent from $639 billion in 1995 to $2.71 trillion in 2007 while total assets under professional management in the US grew less than 260 percent during the same period from $7 trillion to $25.1 trillion; thus, SRI now represents 11% of the total.*

The strategies that define SRI are:

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ON THE WEB!

Social Investment Forum, socialinvest.org

Friends of the Earth, www.foe.org
/international/shareholder/

UNEP Finance Initiative,
www.unepfi.org/publications
/investment/index.html

Read Up!

The Bridge at the Edge of the World, by James Gustave Speth, Yale University Press, 2008.

EcoKids: Raising Children Who Care for the Earth, by Dan Chiras, New Society Publishers, 2005.

Act Locally!

Blue Green Alliance,
Minneapolis, MN
bluegreenalliance.org

Minnesota Renewable Energy Society, Minneapolis, MN
612-308-4757, mnrenewables.org

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