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This online tool helps you make sure your retirement investments reflect your values

This online tool helps you make sure your retirement investments reflect your values

But people increasingly want to know that the conglomeration of corporations that they part-own is clean. That’s where As You Sow’s “Invest Your Values” online tool comes into play. The tool, the winner in the impact investing category of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards, gives users a chance to view what’s in the funds they’re paying into and—if they don’t like what they find—to pick a mutual fund more aligned with their politics “Its essence is to help everyday investors to align their investing with their values,” says Andrew Behar, As You Sow’s CEO. Read More →

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowApril 29, 2020Talib Visram, IYV, invest your values, homepage

Tom Steyer Exaggerates Fossil Fuel Divestment

Tom Steyer Exaggerates Fossil Fuel Divestment

Its “Small Cap” fund scored an A rating — signifying no stock holdings in oil, gas and coal companies — from Fossil Free Funds, a website maintained by As You Sow, an environmental group. But its “Sustainable Emerging Markets” fund received a grade of D. Read More →

Invest Your ValuesAs You SowFebruary 13, 2020climate, climate change, Linda Qiu, Fossil Free Funds

How to Get Socially Conscious Funds Into Your 401(k)

How to Get Socially Conscious Funds Into Your 401(k)

If you want to make a big difference in the world using your hard-earned money, you don’t have a lot of tools at your disposal if you’re not extremely wealthy. Read More →

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowJanuary 13, 2020Ron Lieber, 401(k)

How to tell if you’re invested in gun stocks

How to tell if you’re invested in gun stocks

Even if you haven’t actively been seeking gun stocks, you could still be an investor in them.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowNovember 18, 2019Lorie Konish, gff, guns

Mutual Funds Get ‘Graded’ on ESG Values Using This Online Tool

For investors trying to assess whether their mutual funds are aligned with their values, they now can add a San Francisco-based nonprofit’s expanded report card for funds.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowNovember 4, 2019Gender Equality Funds, Leslie P. Norton, ESG

Use this free tool to see if your investments are sustainable

Use this free tool to see if your investments are sustainable

Investors have a new resource at their disposal to make aligning their portfolios with their personal values easier than ever.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowNovember 4, 2019GEF, Gender Equality Funds, Alicia Adamczyk

8 Ways To Make Your Money Greener

Even if you’re not ready to cut back on flying, there are other ways you can have a personal and positive impact on the environment.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowOctober 7, 2019Asia Martin, Fossil Free Funds

Is My Money Supporting Guns? What To Know & What To Do If You’re Concerned

Is My Money Supporting Guns? What To Know & What To Do If You’re Concerned

A series of deadly mass shootings in August have led to advocates and some voters yet again demanding action from lawmakers to help curb gun violence.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowSeptember 16, 2019Weapon Free Funds, Jo Yurcaba

You might be invested in gun stocks. Here’s how to tell

You might be invested in gun stocks. Here’s how to tell

Recent mass shootings have prompted major retailers like Walmart to reconsider their stance on ammunition sales and open carry policies.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowSeptember 9, 2019Lorie Konish, Weapon Free Funds

Op-Ed: Frustrated by the lack of action on climate change and gun violence? Divest

Californians frustrated by Congress’s failure to pass climate and gun control legislation have a potentially potent tool to produce the change they want: divestment.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowAugust 26, 2019Weapon Free Funds, Fossil Free Funds, Jacques Leslie

Gun Holdings of 9 Big Fund Firms

Gun Holdings of 9 Big Fund Firms

Several large mutual fund companies like BlackRock and State Street have espoused a commitment to investments that benefit all stakeholders –shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers and the communities in which they operate.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowAugust 26, 2019Bernice Napach, Weapon Free Funds

How to know if you’re invested in gun stocks

How to know if you’re invested in gun stocks

Mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas have sent the country reeling.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowAugust 26, 2019Kristin Myers, Weapon Free Funds

This mutual fund is now the largest owner of one of largest gun companies in U.S.

This mutual fund is now the largest owner of one of largest gun companies in U.S.

Mass shootings and the growing wave of socially responsible investing doesn't seem to be influencing behavior at one of the nation's largest mutual fund companies.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowAugust 12, 2019Stephen Gandel, Weapon Free Funds

EEOC Data Is Investors' Next Diversity Push

Workforce data is poised to become the next battleground in investors’ fight for diversity disclosure as a group of investors representing $1.61 trillion in assets plans to send letters to 3,000 large global companies asking them to increase disclosures on workplace demographics and equity policies.

Invest Your ValuesAs You SowJuly 22, 2019Lindsay Frost, gender

Do you know what industries your mutual fund invests in? There are ways to find out

Do you know what industries your mutual fund invests in? There are ways to find out

Investors are increasingly expanding their attention beyond past performance to evaluate what the mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in their accounts are invested in.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowJuly 8, 2019Gender Equality Funds, Fossil Free Funds, homepage

How to Build Your Own ESG Portfolio

How to Build Your Own ESG Portfolio

Investors who decide to put their money where their values are have a small but fast-growing array of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds to choose from.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowJune 27, 2019Karen Hube, Fossil Free Funds, ESG

How to Ensure ESG Investing Isn’t Whitewash

How to Ensure ESG Investing Isn’t Whitewash

Among the $46.6 trillion of U.S. professionally managed assets at the end of 2017, $12 trillion – roughly 26% – was earmarked for sustainable investing, according to data from US SIF.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowJune 3, 2019Debbie Carlson, invest your values, ESG

Future Returns: Investing With a Gender Lens

Future Returns: Investing With a Gender Lens

Gender lens investing strategies have boomed in recent years, fueled by the #MeToo movement, increased awareness about how women often are treated, and a recognition that companies benefit when diversity and inclusion is fostered.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowMay 23, 2019Abby Schultz, Gender Equality Funds

Fidelity Launches Gender-Focused Fund

Fidelity Launches Gender-Focused Fund

Uber may be tech’s IPO headliner in 2019, but plenty of noteworthy warm-up acts are contributing to a banner year in initial public offerings.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowMay 13, 2019GEF, Gender Equality Funds, Leslie P. Norton

Did Fearless Girl Change Anything for Women on Wall Street?

The bull towers 11 feet tall at its shoulder. A staggering 7,100 pounds of shimmering bronze, it stands mid-charge, feet splayed across the sliver of park called Bowling Green at the gateway to New York’s financial district.

Invest Your ValuesAsYouSowApril 18, 2019Benjamin Reeves, Gender Equality Funds