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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: "Earning Interest on Your Principles": WORKING ASSETS (autopost)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.093005.6956@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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- Organization: PACH
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:30:05 GMT
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- Is your money being invested in companies building nuclear weapons?
- Corporations destroying the environment, or who "union-bust" or
- discriminate? What you have in a "regular bank" quite likely is
- invested in assets promoting things we are strongly opposed to. Below
- are several places to put your money which won't let your money work
- against your values...
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- Working Assets Money Fund
- 230 California St.
- San Francisco, CA 94111
- Tel (800)533-3863
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- "The leading `socially responsible' no-load money market fund
- in the U.S..."
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- Screens out against discrimination, pollution, weapons manufacturing,
- etc. [An extensive list of social criteria for investment is given in
- the prospectus]
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- "The leading `socially responsible' no-load money market fund in
- the U.S..."
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- Working Assets Money Fund minimum initial deposit: $1,000
- Annual rprt for fiscal year ending June 30,'90:
- Annual yield: 7.5%; net assets: $214 million
- Fall '90: 7th yr annivers.; 20,000 shareholders
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- You get a quarterly issue (w/monthly acc't report) of Money Matters,
- containing e.g. "Planning for a Peacetime Economy" by Michael
- Closson, Center for Economic Conversion, and a list of some/new
- institutional investors at the back, e.g. Bread for the World
- Institute on Hunger and Development, D.C.; Informed Democracy,
- SantaCruz,CA; ACLU Foundation of Northern California; Lesbian Health
- Care Project, D.C.;
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