About Clean Yield

Clean Yield operates with the belief that virtually every financial transaction has a moral dimension and, often, a social impact. The company helps clients avoid profiting from the exploitation of people and the environment, while working with clients and their capital to press for a healthier, more sustainable society.

We became a B Corp to heighten awareness—our own and others’—that business success should be measured by not just financial gain but also as contribution to a sustainable, humane world.

A pioneer in the field of socially responsible investing (SRI), Clean Yield began in 1985 as a stock-market newsletter that provided buy and sell advice on socially and financially screened securities. Subscribers could avoid tobacco, alcohol, gambling, pornography, weapons, nuclear power, defense contractors, and a number of other areas of concern. Instead, they could direct their investments toward companies with products and services making positive social contributions. Within two years, the principals formed Clean Yield Asset Management, which serves SRI clients by buying and selling securities on their behalf. Clean Yield’s services also include community investing, slow-money investing, and “shareholder activism”—i.e., using the ownership of a company’s shares for leverage in advancing corporate responsibility.

The Change We Seek®

Using the tool of directed investments, they seek to foster such areas as alternative energy, cleaner air and water, medical research and technology, small-scale and organic agriculture, fair-trade commerce, employee ownership, brownfield redevelopment, and nonviolent toys.

Using the tool of divestment, they seek to isolate governments involved in mass exploitation, such as Burma’s government.

Using corporate dialogue and shareholder resolutions, they seek greater corporate transparency and responsibility in such diverse areas as climate change, GLBT equality, executive compensation, campaign contributions, women and minorities on boards of directors, predatory lending, use of genetically modified organisms, human trafficking, child labor, and testing on animals.

Clean Yield Group

• Industry: Investment Advisor
• Product/Services: Asset Managment
• Location: Norwich, VT
• Ownership: Private
• http://www.cleanyield.com