As socially and environmentally amenable advance continues to allure added investors and accretion drive in the marketplace, First Affirmative Financial Network and the nonprofit Social Investment Forum (SIF) will host the 19th anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.sriintherockies.com), October 26–29, 2008 at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler in British Columbia, Canada.
SRI in the Rockies is accepted to draw added than 700 professionals from the socially and ecology amenable investment industry in the U.S. and about the world. This arch anniversary industry accident attracts a advanced ambit of investment professionals—from banking admiral to institutional investors and alternate armamentarium companies—as able-bodied as amusing analysis and proxy voting organizations. Members of religious organizations and amusing change non-profits, and admiral from association development banks, acclaim unions and accompanying organizations aswell will be in attendance.
Conference sessions will focus on: acceptable accounts and investing, business belief and transparency, new trends in actor activism, altitude change, and arising issues and industries like apple-pie tech, and the latest on association investing. The abounding SRI in the Rockies Conference agenda is accessible online at www.sriintherockies.com/2008/agenda.jsp.
Conference speakers will include: David Brancaccio, host of the PBS account annual NOW and columnist of Squandering Aimlessly; Doug Bauer, chief carnality admiral , Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors; Matt Christiansen, controlling director, European Social Investment Forum (Eurosif); Sarah Forrest, controlling director, Goldman Sachs Sustain, London; Barbara J. Krumsiek, chair, CEO, and admiral of Calvert Group, Ltd; Kenneth G. Lay, carnality admiral and broker of the World Bank; and Jack Robinson, founder, Winslow Management Company.
The 2008 appointment takes abode adjoin the accomplishments of an industry that continues to aggrandize rapidly. According to the Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States issued in July 2008 by SIF, socially and environmentally amenable advance is advancing in the United States, growing at a faster clip than the broader cosmos of all investment assets beneath able management. Roughly 11 percent of assets beneath able administration in the U.S. (nearly one out of every nine dollars) are now complex in SRI. From 2005-2007, SRI assets added added than 18 percent while the broader cosmos of professionally managed assets broadcast beneath than 3 percent.
ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC (www.FirstAffirmative.com) is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-5687). The company, which manages about $700 actor in applicant portfolios, offers consulting and asset administration casework through a civic arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined socially acquainted investors. First Affirmative produces the anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.SRIintheRockies.com), the arch appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment industry in North America.
ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM
The Social Investment Forum (SIF) is the U.S. associates affiliation committed to advancing the concept, practice, and advance of socially and environmentally amenable investing. SIF associates accommodate economic, environmental, social, and babyminding factors into their investment decisions. SIF associates includes added than 500 amusing investment practitioners and institutions, including banking professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, alternate funds, researchers, foundations, association development organizations, and accessible educators. More advice about the Forum, including the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United State, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.
REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIPS
To annals to appear the conference, go to www.sriintherockies.com/register.jsp. For abetment with allotment and sponsorships, amuse acquaintance Krystala Kalil ad 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.
MEDIA QUESTIONS
Morrison Shafroth for First Affirmative: 720-470-3653 / mshafroth@csg-pr.com
Patrick Mitchell for SIF: 703-276-3266 / pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com
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