In This Issue: August 9, 2002
• News: Investors Continue to Put Money into
SRI Mutual Funds
• CD-ROM 2001 & 2002
• TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE INVESTING CONFERENCE 2002
• TBLI 2002 Speakers
• Sponsors & Exhibition Booth Rental
• Cross postings and address removal
News:
Big Gap Seen in Socially Responsible, Other Fund Asset Growth in First
Half of 2002; Data Lends Credence to Reports that Market Scandals Are
Nudging Investors to SRI.
Washington, D.C. /// July 30, 2002 ///
Is the scandal-fueled stock market slump turning more Americans into socially
responsible investors? According to Lipper data released today by the
nonprofit Social Investment Forum, socially and environmentally responsible
mutual funds experienced positive asset growth in the first half of 2002
while U.S. diversified fund assets fell off substantially. The Lipper
data show that socially responsible mutual funds had their assets increase
by 3 percent between January-June 2002, while the U.S. diversified funds
experienced a 9.5 percent decrease in total assets.
"This data appears to confirm that there really is something to the
anecdotal reports we are hearing about the ongoing market scandals spurring
new people to join the ranks of socially responsible investing,"
said Steve Schueth, spokesman for the Social Investment Forum and president
of First Affirmative Financial Network. "At the very least it's clear
that socially conscious investors are willing to stand strong through
market instability in order to remain in harmony with their personal values
and see their money working to improve quality of life in society. One
might say that the social investment industry is defying gravity at the
moment. "
Data from Lipper also shows that in June 2002, an especially tumultuous
period in which the S&P 500 lost over 13 percent, socially responsible
mutual funds benefited from net inflows of $47 million, while U.S. diversified
funds suffered from net redemptions to the tune of nearly $13 billion.
[http://www.socialinvest.org]
TRIPLE
BOTTOM LINE INVESTING CONFERENCE 2002
The world's largest Social Responsible Investing conference
November 7-8, 2002, Brussels, Belgium
An international gathering of sustainable investment industry
The Triple Bottom Line Investing conference has grown into the world's
largest international learning and networking event dealing with sustainable
investment(SRI). During the two day event, the latest developments in
corporate governance, screening, auditing, reporting, analysis, asset
management, corporate citizenship, indexes, stakeholder management and
research will be covered. Anyone involved in the financial sector should
attend.
We look forward to welcoming you all!
-- Robert Rubinstein
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TBLI 2002 Speakers
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