Socially responsible investing

The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift

October 31, 2009 By investing 3 Comments

Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of our time-the sustainability revolution. The Sustainability Revolution paints a picture of this largely unrecognized phenomenon from the point of view of five major sectors of society: …
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Managing Concentrated Stock Wealth: An Adviser’s Guide to Building Customized Solutions

October 30, 2009 By investing Leave a Comment

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“An engrossing book on an important subject for any financial planner with high-asset clients . . . (an) excellent book.” — Estate Planning magazine, February 2006″Essential for helping clients navigate the return, risk, tax, legal, charitable, and psychological issues that come with concentrated wealth.” — Paul Solli, Partner, Aperio Group LLC”I have been referring to it more frequently than the yellow pages!” — Ross Levin, CFP, President, Accredited Investors, Inc.”If…
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Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System

October 30, 2009 By investing 3 Comments

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“In conclusion, this book should be read by every serious observer of the crisis. It is an outstanding contribution.” (Lombard Street) “…ably tackles complex issues and covers a wide spectrum of the current debate, including the multiplicity of regulators, the need for international regulatory coordination, transparency, fair value accounting, compensation reform, and the extent to which monetary policy should address systemic asset bubbles.” (The Investment Profe…
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Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk About How To Do It Right

October 29, 2009 By investing Leave a Comment

Practical strategies for promoting ethical behavior Offering a highly realistic, down-to-earth look at ethics in the workplace, Linda Treviño and Kate Nelson’s Managing Business Ethics will help you identify and solve ethical dilemmas, understand why people behave the way they do, and help you design a culture that will promote ethical behavior in your organization. Throughout, the emphasis is on common, real-life work situations, including hiring, managing, assessing per…
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Everyone’s Money Book on Stocks, Bonds & Mutual Funds

October 29, 2009 By investing Leave a Comment

“My mission is to teach people how to make savvy financial decisions and give them all the resources they need to put my advice into action.” ?Jordan E. Goodman, “America?s Money Answers Man” For years, Americans have sought answers to their financial questions in Everyone?s Money Book by Jordan E. Goodman. Now even more detailed answers can be found in a new series of books that focus on single topics in a short, affordable format. Each book in the series contains the mo…
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Estate & Trust Administration For Dummies

October 28, 2009 By investing 3 Comments

Executing an estate or a trust fund is a big responsibility. Estate & Trust Administration For Dummies contains advice for handling estates and trusts of any size. It offers solid pointers on reading and interpreting a will and other documents, and helping heirs avoid paying too much (or too little). It also shows you how to take care of a loved one’s estate in the event that a will or trust was never created. This authoritative, plain-English guide helps you understand …
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Estate & Trust Administration For Dummies

October 28, 2009 By investing 3 Comments

Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

October 27, 2009 By investing 2 Comments

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Arianna Huffington, popular pundit, columnist, and author, is not known for her polite criticisms or her carefully worded complaints. In the course of Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America, the corporate CEOs, accountants, politicians, and lobbyists at who she takes aim receive little relief from their porcine characterization first intimated in the book’s title. And while she is full of invective for Enron’s Kenneth Lay,…
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Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World

October 27, 2009 By investing 3 Comments

This is the story of how and why women’s full participation in leadership matters is still seemingly a well-kept secret. To have the future we all want, women must play a more robust role in setting priorities and allocating resources. “Women Lead the Way” presents argument, research, and tactical guidance to help readers wedge the door open and bring more women through and up. The evidence from around the world validates the findings of the United Nations General Assembly in 19…
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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity

October 26, 2009 By investing 2 Comments

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Rich Christians In An Age Of Hunger is written for our times, when every day more than 34,000 children die of starvation and preventable diseases, and 1. 3 billion human beings live in relentless, unrelieved poverty worldwide. Why is there still so much poverty in the world? Conservatives blame sinful individual choices and laziness. Liberals condemn economic and social structures. Who is right? Who is wrong? Both, according to Ronald Sider in this newly revised, expanded …
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