The move increases transparency of socially responsible investing research while maintaining the proprietary nature of the Calvert investment process.
Investors looking for insight on evaluating the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of large U.S. companies just received some help from the Calvert Group . Calvert, a socially responsible investing (SRI) firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, recently released ratings evaluating the ESG performance of the 100 largest US companies by market capitalization. The Calvert Ratings disclose how the Calvert Social Research team ranks these companies on a scale from one (worst) to five (best) in five categories--environment, workplace, business practices, human rights, and community relations.
Visit the Prospectus Ordering Center "This is all about good management and good governance," said Julie Fox Gorte, vice president and chief social investment strategist. "People don't tend to think of governance in these terms necessarily, but if you turn all this stuff on its head and ask, 'do well governed companies mess up the environment or treat their workers shoddily or trample on human rights'--Well no, of course they don't."
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