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After the flu and a rather busy start into the New Year, I am just now getting a new post out…  

 One area I wanted to look deeper into for the New Year is socially responsible investing (SRI).  This trend just continues to build globally as fund companies open up new SRI funds every day.   socialfunds.com is a site I can recommend as a starting point.   From what I can gather, socialfunds.com is one of the SRI world group websites.  SRI world group is a company based out of Vermont, a seriously green state. 

Once institutional investors start to seriously demand better standards and deeper levels of accountability at Fortune 500 companies, I think we will see SRI kick into another gear and socially responsible investing will move to another level as we close the decade.  It may take an external event, like another big climate catastrophy in the US or W. Europe to reach this new level, but we are getting closer all the time.  SRI will be a very interesting space to watch in 08  

In closing, it seems even seeing hedge funds get heavily into the game now!  I just did some Google SRI searching and found a Swiss SRI Hedge fund advertising.  Of course, entry into this fund is only 500,000…but hey, once Hedge funds start doing this, watch out SRI world!  Your time is arriving.