Social Responsibility

Investors interested in Social Responsiblity use four basic strategies to maximize financial return and attempt to maximize social good. These strategies usually satisfy the ethical principal of non-harming as well as creating positive social impact.

The first three approaches imply increasing involvement in responsible investing namely negative screening, divesting or shareholder activism. Our approach is the fourth and most proactive one, namely positive investing in businesses which have a beneficial social impact.

Positive Investing

Positive investing is the new generation of socially responsible investing. It involves making investments in activities and companies believed to have a positive social impact.

This investment approach allows investors to positively express their values on corporate behavior issues such as social justice and the environment through selection --- without sacrificing portfolio diversification or long-term performance.

Socially responsible investing strategy is evolving and a growing chorus of non-idealistic institutional investors has decided that with the positive screening method, SRI is not simply an ideal, but good business practice and a way to create changes first in the boardroom and ultimately in society.

Positive screening pushes the idea of sustainability, not just in the narrow environmental or humanitarian sense, but also in the sense of a company's long term potential to compete and succeed. 
 

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