All tagged SRI

The two best funds for investing in democracy... and why I don’t use them

In 2007, Trish and I took the girls abroad to France, the UK and Ukraine, as my late wife's ancestors were from that area. As kids, 3 and 6, my daughters played on the Volga. Our hearts are with the people, the defenders, the vulnerable, and the families losing loved ones. I shed no tears for the men causing this war — my cynicism expects them to not suffer deeply. For nearly two decades of my professional life, I worked for international nonprofit organizations promoting rule of law, freedom of speech and fair elections. So where are the Socially Responsible Investing funds supporting democracy?

Investment culture wars?

Conventional conservativism was traditionally pro-corporation, profit-first, and generally liked business to stay out of politics. But the more current version of conservativism is more explicitly anti-progressive, and is interested in more than profits.