Socially responsible investing: how to invest with your conscience
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New York Inst. of Finance
1991
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| Physical Description: | XVI, 367 S. |
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Preface xiii
Part One: Ideas 1
Chapter 1 The Pros and Cons of Socially Responsible
Investing 3
A Brief History 3
Ethical Considerations 6
Economic Considerations 12
Societal Considerations 19
On the Prudence and Sole and Exclusive Benefit Rules 20
Chapter 2 Issues, Strategies, and Conflicts 25
Exploring Your Options 25
Sampling the Issues 26
Shareholder Rights 26
Consumer Rights and Product Quality 26
The Sin Subjects: Smoking, Drinking, and Gambling 26
Environmentalism 27
Racism and Sexism 27
Employee Rights 27
Apartheid and South Africa 28
Armaments, Defense, and the Military 28
Animal Rights 28
Investing Strategies 29
Avoidance Investing: First, Do No Harm 29
Alternative Investing: If You re Not Part of the
Solution, You re Part of the Problem 31
Activist Investing: Changing the Status Quo 32
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vi Socially Responsible Investing
Does Any of It Really Matter? 34
Resolving the Conflicts 38
Chapter 3 What s Your SRIQ (Socially Responsible
Investing Quotient)? 43
A Tale of Four Friends 43
Andrew, the Activist Investor 44
Barbara, the Alternative Investor 45
Carl, the Avoidance Investor 46
Donna, the Traditional Investor 47
Reunion Revelations and Remonstrances 49
Determining Your SRIQ 51
How to Score Your SRIQ Quiz 60
Part Two: Issues 63
Chapter 4 Shareholder Rights: Companies Responsibilities
to Their Stockholders 65
The Fountainhead of Corporate Responsibility 65
The Tip of the Iceberg 74
Chapter 5 The Customer Always Comes First—or at Least
Second 79
The Case for the Consumer 79
The Minimal Case: Honesty and Integrity 80
An Even Higher Standard: Quality and Extra Service 81
Social Responsibility vs. Freedom of Choice 87
Nutrition, Choice, and Fast Foods 88
Seatbelts, Airbags, and Automobile Safety 90
Chapter 6 Selected Sins: Smoking, Drinking, and
Gambling 95
The Case Against Tobacco 95
Avoidance Investors and Tobacco Companies 99
Alternative Investors and Tobacco Companies 103
Activist Investors and Tobacco Companies 104
The Case Against Alcohol 105
Socially Responsible Investing and Alcohol
Companies 107
SRI and the Gambling Industry 110
Chapter 7 Environmentalist!!: The Crusade of the 1990s 115
What Did You Do on Earth Day, Daddy? 115
Forerunners of Today s Environmentalists 116
Gaia Worshippers, Earth First!ers, and Deep
Ecologists 118
A Responsible Approach to Environmentalist!! 120
Contents vii
Solid Waste Disposal 122
Bury It: The Landfill Solution 123
Burn It: The Waste to Energy Solution 127
Recycle It: Use It Again and Again and . . . 129
Don t Produce It: Source Reduction 139
Hazardous Waste Management 142
Water Pollution 146
Ozone: Too Little or Too Much? 151
Depletion of the Ozone Layer 153
Automobile Emissions and Smog 156
The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming 164
The Clean Air Act of 1990 167
The Valdez Principles 169
Chapter 8 Racism, Sexism, and Corporate Responsibility 175
The Rationale Behind Non Discriminatory Business
Practices 175
The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1990 177
Corporate Responsibility and Affirmative Action 179
Women and Comparable Worth 181
Women s Rights and Fetal Protection 184
What Should Socially Responsible Investors Do? 186
Ideas for Avoidance Investors 187
Ideas for Alternative Investors 190
Ideas for Activist Investors 195
Chapter 9 The Corporation s Responsibilities to its
Employees 197
Employees as Corporate Stakeholders 197
Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action,
and Comparable Worth 200
Compensation: How Much Is Fair? 201
Sharing the Corporate Pie 203
General Working Conditions 205
Job Security, Plant Closings, and Retraining 209
Chapter 10 South African Apartheid: The Distant
Challenge 213
The Biggest Issue of Them All 213
What Made It Happen? 215
The Case for the Sullivan Principles (or the Statement
of Principles on South Africa) 219
The Case for Disinvestment 221
The Case for Total Withdrawal 223
Anti Apartheid Stockholder Resolutions in 1990 225
What Should Socially Responsible Investors Do Now? 229
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Chapter 11 Animal Rights 237
A Difference in Kind 237
Vegetarians: The Ultimate Animal Rights Advocates 240
The Protection of Endangered (and Other) Species 241
Factory Farming, Hunting, and Fishing 242
The Anti Fur Movement 243
Drugs, Cosmetics, and Animal Experimentation 243
Chapter 12 Charity, Defense, and the MacBride Principles 249
Different Strokes for Different Folks 249
The Case For and Against Corporate Philanthropy 249
Defense and Armaments 257
Northern Ireland and the MacBride Principles 263
Part Three: Investments 267
Chapter 13 Socially Responsible Mutual Funds and
Investment Adivsors 269
The Case for Mutual Funds 269
What Are Your Financial Investment Objectives? 271
Which Fund or Funds are Designed to Help You
Achieve Your Particular Goals? 272
What Is the Fund s Particular Style of Management? 273
How Has the Fund Actually Performed Over Time? 276
What Are the Fund s Social Criteria and How Do
They Square with Your Own? 277
Calvert Social Investment Fund 278
Managed Growth Portfolio 281
Equity Portfolio 282
Bond Portfolio 283
Money Market Portfolio 284
Calvert Ariel Growth Fund 284
Dreyfus Third Century Fund 286
New Alternatives Fund 289
Parnassus Fund 291
Pax World Fund 295
Working Assets Money Fund 297
A Look at Specialized Funds 299
Why Invest Through Investment Advisors? 301
Chapter 14 How to Manage Your Own Socially
Responsible Portfolio 305
Mother, Please, I d Rather Do It Myself! 305
Avoidance Investor 306
Stage 1: Screening for Social Characteristics 309
Contents ix
Stage 2: Screening for Investment Value 315
Stage 3: Screening for Personal Goals 316
Stage 4: Putting It All Together 318
The Alternative Investor 321
The Activist Investor 328
Bibliography and Information Sources 329
Notes 335
Index 351
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