socially conscious investing Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:12:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png socially conscious investing Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 Socially Responsible Investing: Strategy or Luxury? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/socially-responsible-investing-strategy-or-luxury/ Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:19:10 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4198 As a follow up to our popular post On What Investors Really Want, we decided to add to our discussion with Meir Statman, behavioral finance expert, author, researcher and professor of finance at Santa Clara University. What do we know about the returns of socially responsible investments or values-based investing? Many studies, including my own, […]

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]]> Are There Socially Conscious Ways To Invest? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/socially-responsible-investing/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:27:24 +0000 /blog/?p=1682 If you have a question for The Upfront Blog, please leave it in our comments section, e-mail betsy@wealtfront.com or send it via our twitter feed: @wealthfront. Are there socially conscious ways to invest? -Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, 26 The short answer is yes. But before you decide to practice socially responsible investing, you should carefully consider what […]

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]]> You Really Can Make Money with ‘Virtuous’ Investing https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/money-virtuous-investing/ Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:51:42 +0000 /blog/?p=1111 This post was excerpted and adapted from her latest book, The Overloaded Liberal: Shopping, Investing, Parenting ,and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism (Beacon Press, 2010). Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press. For years, the financial world dismissed socially responsible investing (or “SRI”) as the hobby of church pension funds, unions, and […]

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