Socially Responsible Articles

1). Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Short Term Speculation By : Mark Brandon
This the seventh article in a series of 10 dedicated to showing how the mutual fund industry is abusing the average investor. The entire series can be retrieved from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com.
Article Related to: mutual fund, finance, investing, socially responsible, speculation

2). Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Fresh out of High School By : Mark Brandon
This is the 6th article in a series of 10 dedicated to showing how the mutual fund industry is abusing the average investor. The entire series can be obtained from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com.
Article Related to: mutual fund, adivser, finance, investment, socially responsible

3). Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Tax Inefficiency By : Mark Brandon
This is reason #8 in a 10-part series dedicated to showing how average investors are getting ripped off by the mutual fund industry. The whole series can be retrieved from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com
Article Related to: mutual fund, tax efficiency, socially responsible, investing, finance

4). Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Technology Eclipses Their Reason For Being By : Mark Brandon
This is the ninth article in a series of 10 dedicated to showing how the mutual fund industry is taking advantage of average investors. The whole series can be retrieved from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com.
Article Related to: mutual fund, finance, investment, socially responsible, sustainable

5). Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Better, Cheaper, Less-risky Alternatives By : Mark Brandon
This is the last article in a series of 10 dedicated to demonstrating how the mutual fund industry is abusing the average investor. The whole series can be retrieved from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com.
Article Related to: mutual fund, separately managed, finance, investing, index funds, etf, socially responsible

6). Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Enablers of Poor Corporate Governance By : Mark Brandon
This article is fifth in a series of 10 dedicated to showing how the mutual fund industry is abusing the average investor. The entire series can be retrieved from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com.
Article Related to: mutual fund, socially responsible, investing, finance, corporate governance, bogle

7). Reasons To Fire Your Mutual Fund Company: Soft Dollar Expenses By : Mark Brandon
This is the 1st of 10 articles demonstrating how mutual funds are ripping off investors. The whole series can be downloaded from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com.
Article Related to: mutual funds, investing, investor, socially responsible, soft dollar, ethical investing, fiduciary

8). Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Chasing Performance By : Mark Brandon
This is the eighth article in a series of 10 devoted to showing how the mutual fund industry abuses the average investor. The whole series can be retrieved from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com.
Article Related to: mutual fund performance, finance, investing, socially responsible

9). Reasons to Fire Your Mutual Fund Company - Alphabet Soup of Sales Charges By : Mark Brandon
This is the fourth in a series of 10 articles dedicated to showing how the mutual fund industry is taking advantage of average investors. The whole series can be retrieved from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com
Article Related to: mutual funds, sales charges, load, socially responsible, finance, investing

10). Reasons To Fire Your Mutual Fund Company: 12b-1 Fees By : Mark Brandon
This is the 2nd of 10 articles from the Sustainable Log. The whole series can be downloaded from http://sustainablelog.blogspot.com.
Article Related to: mutual funds, investing, investor, socially responsible, ethical investing, fiduciary, 12b-1

11). Blue Ocean Strategy For Responsible Sourced Jewelry By : Marc Choyt
Those in the jewelry industry interested in a fair and ethical sourcing can differentiate themselves from the industry as a whole, and create a new market category with tremendous potential. This article, based on the book, Blue Ocean Strategy, gives some initial tactics for this emerging movement within the retail sector of the jewelry industry, to capture new markets.
Article Related to: business stategy, socially responsible, jewelry industry, fair trade, ethical, marketing

12). Going Zero Carbon: An Approach for Small Business By : Marc Choyt
Taking environmental action is good business. Implementing a carbon offset program helps the environment and is also a publicity opportunity. Written by a jewelry manufacturer, but applicable to any small business, the article provides a step by step approach to off set carbon: from resources on line that allow you to calculate the figures, to the writing and sending off a press release.
Article Related to: green business, socially responsible, carbon offset, small business, environment, marketing

13). The Chicken Scratch Path: Decision Making Based On Native American Wisdom By : Marc Choyt
"Chicken Scratch Path" is really a decision making process taught by the late Paula Underwood, an Iroquois history keeper. All decisions are binary decisions. Over time, even small decisions lead to either your "truth path" in who you "mainly mean to be" or not. The author, one of her facilitators in her "Learningway" conferences, discusses how this applies to his small business now.
Article Related to: socially responsible, business, green, native, wisdom, ethical, alternative, eco

14). Leading from Behind: Leadership in a Circle-Based Business By : Marc Choyt
The author, president of a successful small business, discusses a radical view of leadership gleaned from nearly twenty years of study with Native American Medicine people. While most CEOs lead from on top, he advocates "leading from behind," and validates his approach validated by his own hardscrabble business experience, showing how honoring the human spirit is a best business practice.
Article Related to: socially responsible, business, green, native, wisdom, ethical, alternative, eco

15). The Circle Manifesto: A New Economic Model Based On Ancient Wisdom By : Marc Choyt
The author, a successful business owner and a national leader in the fair trade, eco jewelry movement, has developed a radical new "circle-based" business model based on his nearly twenty years of study Native medicine people. This story traces the history of his company in context to this radical approach, using a natural system based on interconnection as a model for best business practices.
Article Related to: socially responsible, business, green, native wisdom, ethical, alternative, eco

16). Fair Trade Jewelry: The Challenges and Rewards of an Emerging Movement By : Marc Choyt
A small group of passionate players in the jewelry sector are attempting to create a new product category: fair trade jewelry. Yet does jewelry as a product even fit into the "fair trade" category, which has been associated only with agricultural products? This article, written by a jewelry manufacturer, gives a concise summary of the challenges involved in creating ethically sourced jewelry.
Article Related to: fair trade jewelry, ethical jewelry, environmentally responsible jewelry, socially responsible