What Is A Socially Responsible Investment?
Socially responsible investments will differ for each investor according to his or her convictions. One investor may feel there is nothing wrong with a particular company’s line of work or business practices, while another may consider the company entirely unethical. While there is no universal set of characteristics that define a socially responsible stock, there are certain themes that tend to be commonly associated with socially responsible investing. First off, socially responsible investors typically prefer to avoid making investments in companies that engage in the production or sale of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, gambling or sports betting activities, adult entertainment, and tools of warfare or violence (guns, bullets, bombs, etc.). (To learn more about these types of investments, read Extreme Socially Responsible Investing and Working With Islamic Finance.) As well, socially responsible investors typically seek to invest in companies that possess a healthy amount of
