“The Pax World Women’s Equity Fund seeks long-term growth of capital. The Fund follows a Sustainable Investing approach and normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities. In selecting investments, the Fund seeks companies that take affirmative steps to attract, retain and promote women, and to advance gender equity and women’s empowerment in the workplace and beyond.” ~ http://www.socialfunds.com/funds/profile.cgi?sfFundId=380
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Green Century’s mutual funds allow investors to utilize their investment dollars to help the environment. They seek competitive returns while putting ”your money to work for cleaner air, cleaner water and a healthier planet. We believe that, in the long run, companies (actively traded on the stock market) that now seek to protect the environment may be more profitable than (publicly traded) companies that pollute. And that means a better future for everyone.” ~greencentury.com
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Ever wonder how to read a stock chart?
Well if so, Investopedia has some great tutorials on reading chart patterns:
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NativeOne Institutional Trading is the first American Indian owned company to become a member of the New York Stock Exchange. On the web they educate us on the origins of Wall Street:
“After the Dutch purchased “New Amsterdam” from the Native Americans, a wall was erected that formed the northern boundary of the new colony.
The first walls along the street were basic plank fences, but as time passed and tensions with the mother country grew, a stronger, taller wall was built in order to defend the colony against the American Indian tribes (and British settlers) that still dominated the area.
Although the wall was removed around the turn of the 18th century, it is where Wall Street got its name.
THE TIME IS NOW to remove the barrier that still exists today in the financial industry, and NativeOne is fully dedicated” to this mission.
Founded in Portland Oregon in 1982, Portfolio 21 is a mutual fund with the following principles:
- The global economy is exceeding the earth’s carrying capacity at an unsustainable rate and is approaching a natural limit to growth.
- Selective growth investing is an imperative as a limited number of companies will successfully benefit from the rapidly changing environment.
- Integrated risk analysis is required to quantitatively and qualitatively assess financial, environmental, social, and governance factors impacting industries and specific companies.
1. Headquartered in the District of Columbia, Liquidity Services, Inc. operates online auction marketplaces for surplus and salvage assets in the United States.
The organization offers approximately 500 products broken down into various categories, including consumer electronics, general merchandise, energy equipment, industrial capital assets, fleet and transportation equipment, apparel, scientific equipment, aerospace parts and equipment, technology hardware and specialty equipment.
Its auction marketplaces include:
Are you curious about the inner workings of finance and capital markets? The Khan Academy has fun blackboard lessons.
“The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We’re a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
Natural health stocks are found in the nutraceutical sector. “Nutraceutical, a portmanteau of the words “nutrition” and “pharmaceutical”, is a food or food product that reportedly provides health and medical benefits, including the prevention and treatment of disease.” ~Wikipedia
Highlighted here are a couple of nutraceutical stocks traded around the globe:
1. The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. makes, markets, distributes and sells natural and organic products under brand names like Celestial Seasonings (in the image above). Read the rest of this entry »
