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SRI Growing In Canada

Thursday, 11 March 2010
It's not only clients who ask Betty-Anne Howard how to align their investment choices with their values. Other financial advisors often go to her for tips on socially responsible investing.

Platform Helps Advisors With SRI

By Bruce W. Fraser, February 2010 issue
Envestnet's innovative SRI platform gets praise from advisors who use it.

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Connecting With Clients

By Jerilyn Klein Bier, February 2010 issue
Here's how advisors reach out in effective ways to clients interested in socially responsible investing.

Advisors Making Offices 'Greener'

By Jerilyn Klein Bier, January 2010 issue
Learn what some financial advisors are doing to help the environment—and their businesses.

Frontline News

December 2009 issue

Adviser Aims To Make Himself Dispensable

Wednesday, 04 November 2009
Having a succession plan is not only reassuring to this financial planner and his staff, but also to his clients.

Schwab: Advisors In Motion

Friday, 16 October 2009
A trifecta of statistics from Charles Schwab shows that the market remains fluid for advisors on the move when it comes to changing channels, M&A activity and management buybacks of advisory firms.

Financial Planners Tie Brokers As Top Choice Of Affluent

Friday, 16 October 2009
Planners have tied full-service brokers as the place where the mass affluent park their money.

COLUMN: The Socially Conscious Advisor

By Steve Schueth, September 2009 issue
20 Years Of SRI In The Rockies: The oldest and largest annual event for the sustainable and responsible investment industry celebrates an anniversary.

COLUMN: The Transformational Advisor

By Jim Buro, September 2009 issue
Back To The Garden: Financial life lessons from the summer of love.

Greening Client Portfolios

By Jesse Walden, June 2009 issue
A Merrill Lynch financial advisor who focuses on SRI shares his insight.

It’s Getting Better

By Eric Reiner, June 2009 issue
Bigger tax breaks make greening a home or office more feasible.

Performance Secret

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Monday, 06 April 2009
Advisor Steve Sanders estimates he’s helped about 15% of his clients construct socially responsible portfolios. And for the most part, the SRI portfolios have outperformed those of his other clients over the last five years or so. Here’s why.

SRI Choices Not Keeping Up With Demand

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Nearly 1,000 miles apart, these two financial advisors see some of the same trends: More clients are interested in socially responsible investing, but they don’t see as many options as they’d like when it comes to delivering it.

Advisor Helps Convince McDonald's On Pesticide Reduction

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Tuesday, 31 March 2009
A Seattle registered investment advisor is one of the organizations that helped convince McDonald’s Corp. to promote pesticide-use reduction.

Contact Me

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Monday, 16 March 2009

It’s been two months since we got our microsite, FA green, up and running and the print edition of FA green will appear in the April issue of Financial Advisor magazine. I’ve spoken to many financial advisors and investment advisors interested in sustainable or socially responsible investing, but I’d like to hear from many more of you.

Time To Talk To The Big Spenders

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Thursday, 26 February 2009
My co-workers and I were talking the other day about how it doesn’t matter whether you are rich or poor, some people just spend to the limit—and beyond. Chances are you have some clients who fall into this category, and I’m sure you know it if you do. But it’s possible in the last few months that their situation—even beyond their investment portfolios—has deteriorated very quickly, and you might not know it. They might be embarrassed to admit that, after all, even to you. But now is the time to ask and press them for details.

Clients Want Accountability

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Monday, 23 February 2009
Maybe you heard this last night too: A new national poll by CNN/Opinion Research Corp. shows that the majority of Americans think Washington will make better moves to overcome the recession than Wall Street, the banks or the auto makers. And that’s even among Republicans. The financial meltdown, exorbitant CEO pay and the well-publicized scandals involving Madoff and others have made Americans angry, disgusted and searching for more accountability. And this is just what some financial advisors are hearing from clients, too.

SRI Retirement Plan Provider Has Positive Outlook For 2009

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Thursday, 05 February 2009
Social(k), an SRI retirement plan provider that works with nearly 400 financial advisors, had a good year in 2008 ...

Take Action To Keep Clients Happy

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Wednesday, 04 February 2009
During this severe economic downturn that’s driven revenue lower for many advisory firms, it’s more important than ever for advisors to come up with creative ways to serve clients and keep their business. Advisor Judith L. Seid has found an interesting way to do just that.