Social investment almanac
Subtitle: : a comprehensive guide to socially responsible investing
Publisher: H. Holt and Co.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, USA
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 904
Table of contents: title: What is social investing? Who are social investors? / Amy L. Domini -- The movement since 1970 / Joan Shapiro -- Trade sanctions, ethical investing, and social change in South Africa / Karen Paul and Dominic Aquila -- Environmental investing : a suggestion for state; title: legislation / Christopher J. McKenzie -- Corporations and social responsibility: a historical perspective / Marcy Murninghan -- Fiduciary duty and institutional shareholder activism / James E. Heard -- Shareholder activism / Timothy Smith -- South Africa shareholder resolutions / The Reverend William Somplatsky-Jarman -- Beyond South Africa : shareholders target El Salvador / Steven Koenig -- Shareholder actions and the environment / Edgar C. Crane with Ariane van Buren and Andy Smith -- CERES and the Valdez Principles / Joan Bavaria -- International debt / John E. Lind -- Militarism / Valerie Heinonen -- Maquiladora shareholder actions / Amy L. Domini -- Religious investors and the U.S. pharmaceutical industry / Regina Rowan -- Tobacco shareholder actions / Michael Crosby -- The impact on corporations of shareholder actions / Edgar C. Crane and Timothy Smith -- Corporate social monitoring : types, methods, goals / Karen Paul and Steven D. Lydenberg -- Researching social performance / Steven D. Lydenberg and Lloyd Kurtz -- U.S. research services -- U.S. magazines and newsletters -- Principles of portfolio management / Amy L. Domini -- Fiduciary duties and social investments / W. B. McKeown -- Measuring performance of a social portfolio / Carsten Henningsen -- The Domini Social Index : a new benchmark for social investors / Lloyd Kurtz, Steven D. Lydenberg and Peter D. Kinder -- The Boston South Africa Free (SAFE) Index / Richard T. Wilk -- GOOD MONEY’s stock averages / Ritchie Lowry and Steven Heim -- Evaluating the cost of socially responsible investing / Jeffrey A. Teper -- Stocks / Patrick McVeigh -- Basics of bonds / Diane Keefe -- Municipal bonds / Cheryl Smith -- U.S. stock and bond funds and fund families open to all investors -- U.S. environmental and sector funds -- Year one : the proenvironmental funds outperform Wall Street / Peter Camejo -- U.S. money market funds -- South Africa : free gold funds -- U.S. mutual funds with restrictions on potential investors -- Social venture capital / Michael Hall Kieschnick -- The role of direct investments in social portfolios / Beate Klein Becker -- Meeting capital needs in low-income communities / Daniel M. Leibsohn -- Pension funds and social investment / Carol O’Cleireacain -- Community development banks / Joan Shapiro -- One Bank’s community development banking program / David Berge -- Community development credit unions / Clifford N. Rosenthal -- Community development loan funds : capital for economic, social, and political justice / Martin Paul Trimble, Mark A. Pinsky, and Greg Ramm -- Community land trusts and socially responsible investing / Greg Ramm -- Microlending programs / Jeffrey Ashe -- Compensating deposit programs : how one program works / Gabriela Romanow -- Institutionally oriented programs -- Green consuming / Richard Freierman and Steven J. Bennett -- Boycotts: voting with your dollars / Todd Putnam -- The banking industry / Tom Schlesinger -- Corporate responsibility and gay and lesbian rights / Diane Bratcher -- Employee ownership and the social investor / Corey Rosen -- Labor issues / David F. Sand -- Social investment in Canada / Marc de Sousa-Shields -- Canadian mutual funds / Michael Downie -- Social investment in the United Kingdom / Alan Miller -- U.K. research services and newsletters -- U.K. unit trusts and investment trusts -- U.K. environmental unit trusts -- U.K. life assurance bond funds -- U.K. pension funds -- U.K. community investment vehicles -- Screened investment : the activities and players in Europe / Alison MacDonald -- Some notes on social banking initiatives, screening, and shareholder activism in Europe / Alan Miller -- Australian investment funds and advisers -- Appendix A : Selected U.S. corporations’ social performance -- Appendix B : Directories. Banks -- Brokers, financial planners, and money managers -- Community development investments -- Consulting firms -- Information providers -- Institutional investors -- Mutual and money market funds -- Venture capital -- Glossary.