Can You Future-Proof Your Life?
Many people are motivated by the desire to be as prepared as possible for an uncertain future, but they recognize that this is no easy task. We encourage you to take a big picture view of the world and...
View ArticleA Radical New Way of Thinking About Investing
As frontrunners of the socially responsible investing movement, we at Natural Investments are “resilient investors” who are working off a radical new map of the investing universe. We invite you to...
View ArticleResilient Investing: One World, Many Futures
We hope by now some of our new readers are feeling eager to explore the soaring vision of resilient investing that most of our clients share. Be aware, though: if you want to be a resilient investor,...
View ArticleHope Credit Union: Impact Banking for a Hopeful Future
by Sara Loving Hope Credit Union mortgage client and first-time homeowner Melbatine Hunter. Photo courtesy Hope Credit Union. As institutions that give profits back to their members rather than to...
View ArticleNI Newsletter Summer 2018
Get Your Microplastics Out of My Beer! by Ryan Jones-Casey Your Money or Your Life by James Frazier Hope Credit Union: Impact Banking for a Hopeful Future by Sara Loving Lobbying for Our Collective...
View ArticleEggs and Baskets: the Secret of Resilient Investing
Diversification is, at its root, a response to the ancient admonition you might have learned from grandma: don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. If that basket drops they could all break, ruining...
View ArticleResilient Investing: Recognizing Your Real Net-Worth
Our Resilient Investing Map (RIM) invites you to invest in your life in a way that recognizes and grows all of your assets. Indeed, the goal of resilient investing is to consciously and methodically...
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Divestment as a Moral Imperative by Kirbie Crowe Investing in Carbon Drawdown by Sylvia Panek Weaning Off Wall Street by Hal Brill Harnessing Privilege for Justice by Kate Poole The Fight for...
View ArticleBloomers and Doomers, Two Groups Driving Local Investment
Excerpted and adapted from The Resilient Investor. In Local Dollars, Local Sense, a thorough survey of the local investment movement, Michael Shuman makes a compelling case that small businesses...
View ArticleNI Newsletter Winter 2019
In Support of the Climate Necessity Defense by Ryan Jones Casey Caveat Emptor: What Are You Putting on Your Skin? by Sylvia Panek Mainstreaming Responsible Investing by Michael Kramer Doughnuts...
View Article2018 Social Impact Report
Full copy of the 2018 Social Impact Report. Environmental & Social Impact Of the $524M in assets under management by Natural Investments, $354M is in ESG-screened funds on the publicly-traded...
View ArticleESG & Advocacy in 2018
Environmental & Social Impact Of the $524M in assets under management by Natural Investments, $354M is in ESG-screened funds on the publicly-traded market. ESG refers to a variety of environmental,...
View Article2018 Notable Highlights
Natural Investments, LLC welcomed five new advisors to the firm, expanding our company to twenty advisors across eleven states. We are cultivating the next generation of SRI leaders with wide-ranging...
View Article2000: NI Scores High in New York Times Fund Study
This article is from our archives as part of the 100th issue special, celebrating twenty-five years of quarterly newsletters. For seven years, we took part in a New York Times study to find the best...
View Article2003: How We Can Help Stop the Genocide in Darfur
This article is from our archives as part of the 100th issue special, celebrating twenty-five years of quarterly newsletters. Finding this article in our archives, shortly after the attempted coup in...
View ArticleNI Newsletter Summer 2019
Tales of the Quarter Century by Michael Kramer The following articles appear from our archives as part of the 100th issue special, celebrating twenty-five years of quarterly newsletters. 1994: Viva...
View ArticleNatural Investments Tops $1 Billion
Natural Investments, LLC today announced that its assets under management (AUM) now total over $1 billion. Founded in 1989, but rebranded under a revised name in 2007, Natural Investments’ advisors...
View ArticleNatural Investments, LLC Recognized as a “Best For The World” B Corp for...
Natural Investments, a Certified B Corporation, has been named a Best For The World honoree in recognition of their work to improve the lives of their customers through the use of their product or...
View ArticleNI Newsletter Fall 2018
Divestment as a Moral Imperative by Kirbie Crowe Investing in Carbon Drawdown by Sylvia Panek Weaning Off Wall Street by Hal Brill Harnessing Privilege for Justice by Kate Poole The Fight for...
View ArticleReturning to the South: Part 1
This article is Part 1, by Tiffany Brown, in a new series exploring the racial wealth divide across the Deep South. My business partner Kate Poole and I are clear that our core focus for Chordata...
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