Individuals and institutional investors are coming to realize that their investment decisions have significant global, social, environmental, and political impacts. Harrington Investments' approach is designed to ensure that our clients' assets are invested in companies that have a positive impact on society. To best build socially responsible portfolios, we use both inclusionary and exclusionary investment criteria.
INCLUSIONARY CRITERIA
Harrington Investments invests in securities of companies that:
- Finance housing and small businesses.
- Develop alternative energy and strive for a sustainable environment through the goods and services they provide.
- Contribute to the quality of human and animal life.
- Promote the economic advancement of women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
- Give generously to charitable causes.
- Implement policies that promote the welfare of their employees.
- Bargain fairly with their employees.
- Have a positive impact upon society through the quality and safety of their products.
- Freely disclose and implement exemplary human and labor rights policies and environmental codes of conduct.
EXCLUSIONARY CRITERIA
Harrington Investments seeks to avoid investing in securities of companies that:
- Manufacture tobacco products, pollute the environment, or discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, or perceived disability.
- Manufacture weapons.
- Generate nuclear power.
- Consistently violate regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
- Genetically modify seeds or living organisms.
- Are involved in the gambling and gaming industry.
- Violate or deny basic human rights of workers.
- Do not respond to shareholder communications or proposals.
- Have primary business practices that involve the inhumane treatment of animals.