April 27th release of Business Ethics 100 Best Corporate Citizens
Powered by KLD's SOCRATES for the seventh straight year, Business Ethics magazine's annual survey of the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" is a ranking of leading ethical performers publicly listed in the US. Released every spring, The 100 Best Corporate Citizens list is designed to recognize firms that excel at serving a variety of stakeholders with excellence and integrity. More...

@KLD now distributed via the Bloomberg Terminal
@KLD is a semimonthly publication in which KLD highlights breaking corporate stories recently added to Socrates, KLD's online research database. Since its launch in 2001, @KLD has included over 3,500 entries, selected from more than 122,000 updates to Socrates. More...

KLD Introduces New Training Options
KLD is pleased to offer enhanced training options to clients of its research products, including SOCRATES and PASS. Clients will have the option to request individualized training for themselves or their company, or join "classes" that will focus on specific functions, such as querying or using the Portfolio Screening tool. More...

Performance Attribution: A Look at KLD Indexes in 2005
In this article, we look at the 2005 performance of KLD’s Indexes. The findings illustrate some general characteristics of social indexes. In addition, they shed light on differences between KLD indexes, showing the variance in their returns and the sources of this divergence. More...

KLD’s Animal Welfare Service
KLD's animal welfare service is designed to meet the needs of institutional investors, money managers, and foundations implementing investment mandates associated with animal welfare issues. More...

Sudan and South Africa: A Tale of Two Divestment Movements
Many commentators have equated the Sudan and the South Africa divestments. In fact, the cases for the two are more different than similar. But those differences – in the countries involved, their economic importance and the nature of the conflict – only make imperative the case for Sudan divestment. More...

3rd Iteration of Global Reporting Initiative Set to Launch This Fall
The task of encoding standardized guidelines for corporate sustainability reporting takes another step forward this year as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) prepares to release its third guidance document in six years. KLD joined 140 organizations, including eight other social investment firms, in commenting on the latest draft. More...

Sudan Divestment Update
Students at the University of California and Brandeis University recently published a report on where the Sudan divestment campaign stands nationally. The April 2006 report provides details on the progress of numerous states, universities, and private pension plans that have active divestment campaigns, as well as the status of ex-Sudan investment offerings by asset managers and private pension plans. More...

Pushback on Corporations
March was a month that should have left corporations on their toes - the observant ones, anyhow. There were several instances of pushback against companies, some through legal or diplomatic channels, others through violent protest. More...

March 2006 Social Index Returns. More...
KLD Indexes Adds Gen-Probe to the Domini 400 Social Index More...
KLD Releases Social Research for Academics More...
KLD Indexes Announces Changes to the KLD Global Climate 100 Index More...