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MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE DEBATE

Joyce Hanson of Advisor One writes “Doing good versus making money—that was the topic at the Javits Center in New York. In a sometimes feisty Oxford-style debate, portfolio managers and professors sparred over whether socially responsible investment has any business contributing to—or subtracting from—a company’s bottom line…”

READ the September 29, 2011 FULL FEATURE HERE

GREEN OR GREENWASHING?

Jeri Klein of Financial Advisor magazine

READ the October 5, 2011 FULL FEATURE HERE

WALL STREET JOURNAL JAPAN

Ms. Misako Hida of The Wall Street Journal Japan edition

READ the October 14, 2011 FULL FEATURE HERE

FORBES.COM

Aman Singh of Forbes.com

READ the September 15, 2011 FULL FEATURE HERE

TRIPLE PUNDIT

Raz Godelnik of Triple Pundit

READ the October 5, 2011 FULL FEATURE HERE

“Ethical Businesses With a Better Bottom Line”

Tina Rosenberg of The New York Times writes, “The San Francisco-based investment firm HIP (Human Impact + Profit) Investor Inc. measures 20 or 30 different indicators that rarely show up in a company’s balance sheet but that HIP contends are leading indicators of higher profits…”

READ THE APRIL 2011 NEW YORK TIMES’ FULL FEATURE HERE.

“Green” Investing Strategies Growing

Can investment portfolios that prioritize ecological benefits and energy efficiency exceed the market’s performance?  Paul Sullivan of The New York Times profiles HIP Investor, Portfolio 21 and other investment managers where “green” and “gain” are possible.

READ THE SEPTEMBER 2010 NEW YORK TIMES’ FULL FEATURE HERE.  

“R. Paul Herman has built a new model for socially responsible  investing. One aimed at market-beating performance. …”

READ THE MORNINGSTAR FULL FEATURE HERE:
(free subscription may be required) or THE ORIGINAL HERE

“With carbon cap-and-trade legislation before Congress and increasing pressure from shareholders, US companies know they’ll have to deal with their greenhouse gas emissions, or carbon footprint, and many are jumping the gun to change their carbon liability into an asset.

“The best-managed companies are evaluating their carbon footprint,” says R. Paul Herman, founder and CEO of HIP Investor Inc., a Californian investment advisory firm that has created two sustainability indexes tracking the S&P 100 and S&P 500 constituent companies. “And they’re managing it lower to save energy and costs, reduce their future volatility of materials costs, mitigate potential environmental liabilities, and create new competitive advantages.”

Getting a handle on these emissions, however, takes work. …

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HIP Commentary in Sustainable Industries

“Cleantech Grows In the Investor Community”

Where are the opportunities for an investor seeking “clean-tech” innovations? They may already be in an investor’s portfolio today – including GE, Honeywell, and Caterpillar.   These and other S&P 500 companies are generating top-line revenue from products that are more efficient in energy, water and waste.   Many of these products are also profitable, generating shareholder value.

Read HIP CEO R. Paul Herman’s commentary in Sustainable Industries magazine and learn how S&P 500 companies are becoming more HIP (Human Impact + Profit) and portfolio choices for investors.

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How does LifeCycle Analysis (LCA) benefit corporations and investors? Read Rahilla Zafar’s feature in INSEAD Knowledge, the magazine of the leading European business school.

HIP’s CEO R. Paul Herman explains how LCA thinking and analysis could have helped General Motors and AIG avoid some of the gripping issues both face today.

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http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/59/making-money-a-renewable-resource/all

The magazine INSEAD Knowledge, published by  the leading global business school, interviewed HIP’s CEO R. Paul Herman at the Net Impact conference in Philadelphia.   Rahilla Zafar  explores how large corporations like Walmart and Coca-Cola Enterprises are  pushing forward in sustainability.      Read the full INSEAD Knowledge feature at this link:

http://knowledge.insead.edu/GlobalCrisisSustainability081125.cfm

“Mandating changes in supplier practices can deliver 90% or more of your greenhouse-gas reductions”

In addition, the feature analyzes Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard and Federal Express.

READ THE FULL COVER STORY HERE:

http://www.treasuryandrisk.com/Issues/2008/October%202008/Pages/What’sYourGreenStrategy.aspx

Read the full article in BusinessGreen.com HERE

• Bob Okunski of Sunpower (Sunpowercorp.com) spoke about the solar pioneer’s technology advances and their efforts to cut the costs of solar power, while enumerating challenges of the current policy landscape.
Jay Rooke explained how TerraPass (Terrapass.com) takes a grassroots approach to cutting carbon emissions, and highlighted its innovative methane capture methods at local dairy farms.
Josh Becker, co-founder of New Cycle Capital (Newcyclecapital.com), an early-stage venture capital firm, explained some of the firm’s criteria for seeking out promising ventures within the “extended green economy”.

Entrepreneurs, industry experts, investors and students networked prior to the presentations – and engaged in an energetic discussion during the Q&A session.

The discussion highlighted innovative new initiatives (e.g. 1 Block Off the Grid -www.1bog.org), emerging technologies within the renewable energy space, and the policy debates currently consuming the renewable energy community, such as investment tax credits.

Attendee Kathy Brozek enthused,

“It was a perfect mix of presentations, data analysis, discussion and networking…(with) a stimulating mix of attendees.”

Listen to the presentation and see HIP’s PowerPoint (with audio from the roundtable):

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To learn more about HIP Investor Services, contact Jessica Skylar at Jessica@HIPInvestor.com.

Ask Your Questions in the ‘comments’ section below! The HIP team will respond over the next month to attendees’ and subscribers’ inquiries.

Squawk on the Street interviewed Amy Feldman (contributing writer, Fast Company magazine) and Brett Galimidi, SVT Partner, about the HIP analysis of global energy  firms — focused on integrated oil companies — and  how investors can maximize their portfolio’s Human Impact + Profit.

Watch it on CNBC.com!