Community Investing

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Here's a brief overview of community investing, how it helps to create healthy and vibrant communities worldwide, and how you can become a community investor...

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Responsible Investing Poised to Become Mainstream

by Robert Kropp
SRI News
August 10, 2009

Citing the reduction of carbon emissions and the growth of clean technologies as primary drivers, a recently published white paper by Robeco Investment Management and Booz & Company estimates that the Responsible Investment (RI) market will "become mainstream within asset management by 2015, reaching between 15%-20% of total global Assets Under Management ($26.5 trillion) and a total revenue of approximately $53 billion."...

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UBS Settlement Puts Spotlight On Tax Evasion

by Greg Allen
Morning EditionNational Public Radio
August 5, 2009

For months, U.S. officials insisted that they were going to trial and would settle for nothing less than full disclosure from UBS.
Scott Michel, a partner with Caplin & Drysdale, a Washington, D.C., firm representing many UBS account holders, says what changed things was the involvement of the Swiss government.
Switzerland places great value on its bank secrecy laws. The Swiss government said publicly that it would seize UBS records rather than allow the company to hand over secret account information to U.S. authorities.
...It's a precedent that may eventually be brought to bear on the Cayman Islands, Singapore, Liechtenstein and many other nations that have been identified as international tax havens.