SRI in the Rockies - Premier Gathering of Sustainable Investment Professionals Anticipates a Banner Event

SRI in the RockiesStore this angel in big sizeCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO. -- The 19th anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference is accepted to draw a almanac 700 acceptable and amenable investment (SRI) industry practitioners and professionals from accompanying fields in the United States, Canada, and about the apple October 26–29, 2008.

This year, SRI in the Rockies is traveling to the beauteous Canadian Rockies in Whistler, British Columbia. George Gay, CEO of First Affirmative Financial Network, appointment producer, is agog about the setting. “As always,” Gay observes, “we accept an outstanding venue. The Fairmont Chateau Whistler by itself supports our focus on claimed and able growth. Nurturing the access amid our profession lives and our accustomed ambiance has consistently been a key appropriate of this conference.”

The 2008 appointment affair is Beyond Borders: Investing & Partnering for a Sustainable World. Sessions will focus on acceptable accounts and investing, business belief and transparency, new trends in actor activism, altitude change, assorted arising issues and industries like apple-pie tech, the latest on association investing, and a host of added topics.

SRI in the Rockies is a affiliation amid First Affirmative and the non-profit Social Investment Forum (SIF). “For associates of the Social Investment Forum,” said Lisa Woll, SIF CEO, “SRI in the Rockies is an agilely advancing event. With $2.7 abundance in SRI assets just in the U.S., the ache for ability about the accord amid advance and environmental, social, and accumulated babyminding factors is growing daily. SRI in the Rockies provides industry practitioners with the advice they charge to be added effective.”

The anniversary Moskowitz Prize for bookish arete on a affair germane to the SRI industry will be awarded during the conference. And 6-8 hours of CE (continuing education) credits will be accessible for CFPs (certified banking planners).

Confirmed absolute speakers include:
--David Brancaccio, Host, Senior Editor, and Reporter of NOW on PBS; author, Squandering Aimlessly;
--Sarah Forrest, Executive Director, Goldman Sachs Sustain, London
--Matt Christiansen, European Social Investment Forum (Eurosif)
--Melissa Brown, Executive Director, Association of Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA);
--Jennifer James, Urban Cultural Anthropologist;
--Barbara J. Krumsiek, Chair, CEO, and President of Calvert Group, Ltd.
--Stephen Lewis, co-Director of AIDS-Free World; Professor, McMaster University; Senior Advisor, Columbia University; author, Race Against Time.

WHO PARTICIPATES?
First Affirmative President and appointment producer, Steve Schueth, is admiration the better and a lot of acute accident in the conference’s 19-year history. “As always, we apprehend passionate, artistic humans from all corners of the SRI industry to accompany us in Whistler—from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and elsewhere,” he said. “We are consistently afraid by how far some humans biking to be a allotment of SRI in the Rockies. We are planning to bear an adorning and educational affairs for new-comers and old accompany alike.”

Conference participants include:
--Licensed investment professionals confined socially acquainted clients;
--Mutual armamentarium companies and asset managers;
--Institutional investors;
--Social analysis and proxy voting organizations;
--Community development banks, acclaim unions, accommodation funds, and accompanying organizations; and
--Religious organizations and amusing change non-profits.

Space is limited, so Schueth recommends aboriginal registration.

VISIBILITY FOR ORGANIZATION
SRI in the Rockies offers a advanced arrangement of advocacy opportunities, so organizations of any admeasurement can get involved—and get acknowledgment in this fast-growing industry. A account of appointment sponsors is accessible on the appointment website.

ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, First Affirmative Financial Network is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-56587). First Affirmative offers consulting and asset administration casework to alone and institutional investors civic through a arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined the different needs of socially acquainted investors. More advice at www.firstaffirmative.com.

EDITOR’S NOTE
For added advice or to accomplish arrange to appear SRI in the Rockies, amuse acquaintance First Affirmative admiral Steve Schueth at 303-442-8400 x101 / steveschueth@firstaffirmative.com or Conference Coordinator Krystala Kalil at 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.

Steve Schueth
303-442-8400 x 101
steveschueth@firstaffirmative.com

ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM
The Social Investment Forum (SIF) is the alone civic 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 State, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.