First Affirmative - Global Financial Crisis Takes Center Stage at Socially Responsible Investment Industry Conference

SRI in the RockiesStore this angel in big sizeCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO—October 21, 2008— Socially amenable investment industry leaders will focus ample absorption on the all-around banking crisis at the 19th anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference October 26-28, 2008.

A almanac 720 participants are accepted to assemble on The Fairmont Chateau Whistler, in Whistler, British Columbia. Several of the appointed appointment sessions will affection experts discussing how socially acquainted investors can advice to adapt the approaching of the all-around banking arrangement about the attempt of transparency, fairness, acceptable governance, and abiding thinking, including:
•A CEO Roundtable on Industry Trends;
•A Banking Sector console focused on Sustainable Global Finance;
•A affair on Philanthropy and Mission-Related Investing;
•An able console on the Sub-Prime Mortgage Situation;
•A roundtable altercation with International SRI Industry Leaders;
•A altercation about how astute administration of environmental, social, and babyminding (ESG) issues can abate accident and position companies to excel over the continued term; and
•A Special Session that will focus accurately on the all-around banking crisis.

“This is a different befalling for SRI leaders to strategize on amalgam the attempt of socially and environmentally amenable advance – such as amenable accumulated babyminding – into the nation’s banking basement affective forward,” said Lisa Woll, Chief Executive Officer of the Social Investment Forum (SIF).

SRI in the Rockies, a accord amid First Affirmative Financial Network and the Social Investment Forum, is the arch anniversary appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment (SRI) industry in North America.

“The banking crisis has put a spotlight on some of the affliction practices on Wall Street, abounding of which socially acquainted investors accept formed to antidote over the years,” said George R. Gay, CEO of First Affirmative Financial Network and a Director of the Social Investment Forum. “We accept that a added socially amenable access to advance can—and should—play a role in allowance to transform the advance world.”

SRI in the Rockies takes abode adjoin the accomplishments of an industry that continues to aggrandize rapidly. According to the SIF’s “2007 Trends Report,” about one out of every nine dollars beneath able administration in the U.S. in 2007 was complex in SRI. From 2005-2007, SRI assets added added than 18 percent while the broader cosmos of professionally managed assets broadcast beneath than 3 percent.

ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM (SIF)
SIF is the U.S. associates affiliation committed to advancing the concept, practice, and advance of socially and environmentally amenable investing. SIF associates accommodate economic, environmental, social, and babyminding factors into their investment decisions. SIF associates includes added than 500 amusing investment practitioners and institutions, including banking professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, alternate funds, researchers, foundations, association development organizations, and accessible educators. More advice about the Forum, including the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.

REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIPS
To annals to appear the conference, go to www.sriintherockies.com/register.jsp. For abetment with allotment and sponsorships, amuse acquaintance Krystala Kalil at 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.

MEDIA QUESTIONS
Morrison Shafroth for First Affirmative and SRI in the Rockies: 720-470-3653 / mshafroth@csg-pr.com; Rachel MacKnight for the Social Investment Forum: 202-872-5359 / rmacknight@socialinvest.org

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ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC (www.FirstAffirmative.com) is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-5687). The company, which manages about $700 actor in applicant portfolios, offers consulting and asset administration casework through a civic arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined socially acquainted investors. First Affirmative produces the anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.SRIintheRockies.com), the arch appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment industry in North America.

Morrison Shafroth
mshafroth@csg-pr.com
720-470-3653
5475 Mark Dabling Boulevard, Suite 108
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918 USA