Every other year, the Social Investment Forum (SIF) takes the pulse of socially responsible investing (SRI) with its trends report. The diagnosis? A healthy heart rate fuels continuing growth. From 2005 (when the report was last published) to 2007, SRI assets rose more than 18 percent--from $2.29 trillion to $2.71 trillion. In comparison, the broader market of all investment assets under management practically stood still, growing less than 3 percent. The report made waves, garnering coverage by the Wall Street Journal, On Wall Street, GreenBiz, Pensions & Investments, and Financial Planning.
Doctors usually advise patients to "stay active," and SRI has certainly done so through shareholder activism - with healthy results. Support for shareholder resolutions on social and environmental issues reached a record high in 2007 of 15.4 percent on average, up from the 9.8 percent average two years earlier.
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