What's Inside Your Mutual Fund?
Do you know what types of companies your mutual funds invest in? A new Wall Street Journal blog, FiLife , pointed to two free services where you can find out. Calvert, a mutual fund company that runs "socially responsible" mutual funds, provides a service called Know What You Own . Just type in the name of your mutual fund, choose from a list of issues, and you can see if any of the companies it invests in make tobacco products, for example. Another organization with a free screening tool is Invested Interests. Its Mutual Fund Social Screen Tool requires your name and e-mail address (and it'll encourage you to open an investment account, which you don't need to do), but it covers more issues than Calvert's service.
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These are helpful tools for all who want to put their money where their values are.
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