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- From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Working Assets
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.175844.945@informix.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 17:58:44 GMT
- References: <4jF=zy=@engin.umich.edu> <BxvzH2.E4p@taligent.com> <1992Nov18.192522.16924@tandem.com>
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- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <1992Nov18.192522.16924@tandem.com> pearson_steven@tandem.com (Steven R. Pearson) writes:
- >
- > *** beware controversial opinions follow ***
- >
- >Personally, I would put your money where it will earn the most and then if
- >you want, donate the difference between what it will earn in, say, Vanguard
- >Money Market Prime, and Working Assets, to your favorite charity. IMHO,
- >the failure of an SRI fund to invest in Mean and Nasty Corp has next to no
- >effect on anybody but the investor. As long as MNC can continue to make
- >money hand over fist doing whatever it does, there will be investors lining
- >up
-
- Maybe so. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to make money by selling,
- say, heroine and needles to children, even if I knew I could get away
- with it and that if I didn't sell them, then others would instead.
-
- By extension, I might not want to own shares in a business that operates
- "unethically" - it doesn't mean that I think it will go out of business
- if I don't invest in it, just that I personally don't want to be
- involved.
-
- Paul
-