SRI Approach

We provide investment management services for those investors who are committed to making the world a better place through various means including utilizing their investments to influence companies to act responsibly towards the environment, employees, products, community, and other issues. 

The socially responsible investment field, though much doubted in its early years, has had great successes and continues to grow and create greater positive societal impact.  The success of the South Africa divestment effort is an example of how powerful the combined forces of socially conscious money can be.  A similar, if not bigger, intensive effort is waged by the SRI field in the area of global warming and environmental protection in terms of corporations adopting a code of business conduct to reduce causes of global warming.

We work with various methods of socially responsible investing, such as: 

• divestment (or boycott)

• non-participation on negative companies

• pro-active investment in companies to continue dialogue for improvement

• participating in shareholder actions on issues with other SRI firms and organizations; such as, ICCR and Social Investment Forum

• greater investment in high social impact activities such as clean energy, natural foods and processes, affordable housing and education.

We will be involved in networking opportunities in the field to advance progress in various social criteria issues in a more collective way.

We also actively research company’s clients and we are excited about and would love to support, such as clean energy.  These are companies that have products or services that are considered positive for the society or companies that are strongly committed to environmental sustainability and human dignity and equality.

These are often smaller companies with one or two clear lines of businesses.  Thus, they are often considered more volatile.  It would be each client’s decision to include how much, if any, of these types of companies in the portfolio.

We also work with clients that are interested in community investing.  This is done through various community investment financial intermediaries such as community loan funds, community development banks, micro lending funds or other funds.  Investments can be also made directly to specific community investment projects.

The following are major social criteria issue areas that we work with, with our clients: