The rigger's log

Hi,

I’ve just sent out the April 2012 Capital Drain newsletter. If you’re on the direct mailing list for that, you should be receiving it now.

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If you just want to read the letter, follow this link: April 2012 CapDrain.

I hope you’ll enjoy it. You can sample from the past several years of newsletters on this page.

-R

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I was interviewed a few weeks back, by the sustainable innovation group InnovatingSMART. It’s on the web now, and I like it. Click anywhere below to see it.

Rick Drain, Founder of Longsplice Investments – InnovatingSMART
www.innovatingsmart.org

THE INNOVATION:
A former computer chip design engineer turns his math skills toward managing a socially-responsible mutual fund. Longsplice Investments is a mutual fund company that explicitly emphasizes selection of portfolio companies that are good corporate citizens.

The most frequent question about Socially Responsible Investing is “how much profit are you giving up by playing ‘Nice’?”
Answer: None. In fact, there’s extra profit in SRI.

Other studies have reached the same conclusion, but here’s a new one by Harvard Business School as reported by Tom Randall of Bloomberg.com:
Saints Beat Sinners for Sustainable Investing: Stock Chart

Hi,

I’ve just sent out the February 2012 Capital Drain newsletter. If you’re on the direct mailing list for that, you should be receiving it now.

If you’re not yet on the list, but would like to be, send me an email.
If you just want to read the letter, follow this link: February 2012 CapDrain.

I hope you’ll enjoy it. You can sample from the past several years of newsletters on this page.

-R

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