Compelling Returns: A Practical Guide to Socially Responsible Investing: Scott J. Budde
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Achieve competitive financial returns and make a difference at the same time by applying the information in Compelling Returns: A Practical Guide to Socially Responsible Investing, a well-rounded guide to socially responsible investing (SRI). Understand the basics of SRI and discover how you can align your values with your investments by choosing from three basic strategies. Learn to implement these strategies in your investment portfolios and combine your newfound knowledge with the basic principles of successful investing. An up-to-date directory of companies involved with SRI is included.
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Receiving widespread attention from both individual and institutional investors, Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is no longer a niche area in the field of finance. And with concerns over environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues on the rise, this proven approach will put you in a better position to achieve competitive returns in the years ahead.
As leader of TIAA-CREF’s Global Social and Community Investing initiative, author Scott Budde is responsible for finding investment opportunities and social screening strategies that create a positive social impact and competitive returns. Now, with Compelling Returns, he discusses what it takes to excel at this endeavor and shows you how to profitably align your values with your investments.
Filled with the extensive experiences of an expert in the SRI field, Compelling Returns opens by addressing some basic, but important, issues associated with socially responsible investing. You’ll become familiar with everything from key terms and the logic behind SRI to how SRI has evolved over time. With this information in hand, you’ll be introduced to three essential SRI strategies—social screening, community investing, and shareholder activism—and discover how to determine what combination of these strategies best fits your social values. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific strategy and designed to give you a comprehensive understanding of how that strategy works and what it takes to successfully integrate it into your everyday investment activities. Along the way, you’ll learn why these strategies are so effective and how to choose from a variety of funds that follow them.
Compelling Returns contains insights that individual investors will find invaluable, but it also offers some practical advice for institutional investors—such as endowments and foundations—that may be interested in SRI solutions, and details why you should care about these types of strategies.
The combination of both competitive investment performance and positive social impact through SRI strategies has in fact made for compelling returns. This well-rounded resource—which includes an information-packed appendix—will show you how socially responsible investing can help you make the money you desire while making a real difference.
One Response for "Compelling Returns: A Practical Guide to Socially Responsible Investing: Scott J. Budde"
SRI Funds stand for Socially Responsible Investing Funds. These represent companies or industries which are providing some socially helpful and beneficial services to the world. This automatically makes them safer companies to invest in. while products like firearms many not be from a SRI fund company, but tobacco can be. SRI Funds also do not include companies which deal with animal testing products.
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