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1970-79
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1971 |
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Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) founded |
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1971 |
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Pax World Fund launched, first socially responsible mutual fund |
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1980-89
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1984 |
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Bhopal disaster occurs |
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1988 |
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KLD Research & Analytics founded |
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1989 |
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Exxon Valdez disaster occurs |
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1989 |
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Ceres (As the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies) founded |
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1990-99
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1990 |
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KLD’s Domini 400 Social Index, first broad-based SRI benchmark index, launched |
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1990 |
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The Ceres Principles drafted, as the Valdez Principles |
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1991 |
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Domini Social Equity Fund, the first socially screened index fund, launched |
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1992 |
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Jantzi Research Inc. founded
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1994 |
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SOCRATES, the first computerized social investment database, launched
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1994 |
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South Africa sanctions end |
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1995 |
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KLD becomes founding member of US Social Investment Forum |
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1997 |
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The Global Reporting Initiative established |
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1998 |
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KLD Compliance released |
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1999 |
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KLD Catholic Values 400 launched
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1999 |
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$1 billion in assets under management in funds based on KLD’s indexes |
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2000-08
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2000 |
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Sustainable Investment Research Institute Pty Ltd (SIRIS) founded |
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2001 |
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Top 3,000 US companies by market capitalization now profiled in SOCRATES |
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2001 |
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KLD Large Cap & Broad Market Indexes launched |
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2001 |
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SOCRATES 5.0, the first on-line social investment database, developed by KLD |
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2001 |
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EUROSIF founded |
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2001 |
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Collapse of Enron |
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2002 |
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KLD begins offering emerging markets research |
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2003 |
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Investor Network on Climate Risk launched at first Institutional Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the UN |
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2004 |
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KLD Social Select Index, first socially responsible ETF, launched |
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2005 |
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Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) launched |
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2005 |
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KLD creates Index group |
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2005 |
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KLD Global Climate 100 index launched |
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2006 |
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KLD Sudan Compliance service released |
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2006 |
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KLD 400 Social Index iShares ETF, the first benchmark social ETF, launched
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2006 |
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KLD launches Dividend Achievers Social Index (DASI), first dividend Index |
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2007 |
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KLD Global Sustainability Index, the first family of benchmark sustainability indexes launched |
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2007 |
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KLD Iran Compliance service released |
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2007 |
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$11 billion in assets under management in funds based on KLD’s indexes |
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2008 |
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KLD launched first fixed income sustainability index |
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