Soulful investing
Financial powerhouse Dow Jones has launched dharma indexes "to track the stocks of companies that observe the values of dharma-based religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism," reports the Washington Post. "The principle of dharma contains precepts relevant to good conduct, but also the implicit requirement of mindfulness about the sources of wealth—and therefore responsible investing," said Nitesh Gor, chief executive of Dharma Investments, a firm that helped create the indexes. For more information, visit www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/index.cfm?event=showDharmaOverView, but know that the list of companies is not yet up on the website.




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Comments
Great article, but the link didn't work when I clicked on it. I hope you'll post a follow up to this story once DI has it's list of companies up.
Posted by: baliscott | January 26, 2008 08:05 PM
Quite frankly, I would be a bit skeptical about anyone from wall street being conscious about Dharma. The way they see it, according to me, is that it is yet another way of getting investors'(dharma conscious investors in this case) money. Let us see how much punya they rack up now.
Posted by: Yoga Vidyarthi | January 27, 2008 05:38 PM
Can anyone tell me what's a good website or book that contains more information on soulful investing?
Posted by: Lucy DiFranco | February 4, 2008 08:09 PM