Ethical Finance
Research and information:
Ethical Investment Research Service – the largest UK service, keeps tabs on companies and oppressive governments for many institutional investors
Coreratings – rating agency providing independent investment analysis of corporate responsibility risks
Ethical screening – conducts detailed research and analysis into a wide range of corporate social responsibility issues, from human rights to environmental exploitation.
FTSE – the world’s first significant series of share indices designed specifically for socially responsible investors
Ethical Investors – specialist financial advice service to all those who care about their world and its preservation
Sriworld – personal finance site devoted to socially responsible investing including complete coverage of social mutual funds, community investment, and shareowner action (based in the US)
Trustnet – massive, daily up-dated but free to access website contains information about all kind of investment funds, ethical or otherwise
Inaise – the International Association of Investors in the Social Economy is a global network of socially and environmentally oriented financial institutions
Integra Venture – The Integra Venture is a network of Community Economic agencies in Central and Eastern Europe that offers practical and professional help for entrepreneurs to start and grow their business
Banks:
Co-operativebank – the only UK clearing bank to publish an ethical investment policy, it has now more than 3 million customer accounts
Smile – the UK first internet-only bank launched by the Co-operative Bank with the same ethical investment policy
Ecology – small mutual building society whose savings accounts are only used to fund mortgages considered to be green
Triodos – a specialist ethical savings bank
Charitybank – “the world’s first non-for-profit bank”
JAK – first co-operative, interest-free bank in Sweden
Gemeinschaftsbank – the first ethical-ecological bank in Germany. The bank was founded in 1974 with currently over 3.400 projects
lanef – French cooperative for social finance- over 10,000 members (sorry website only in French!)
Esfin-ides – a French ethical banking group (sorry website only in French!)
Soficatra – the first European venture capital organisation in social finance that provides finance, service and coaching support, with shareholders in 7 countries, mainly in Belgium (SNI), France (ESFIN) and Italy (CFI)
Merkurbank – a Danish ethical bank (sorry, website only in Dane !)
Templomosok:
Templar History
Wikipedia
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