This article was originally posted at Ploughshares.org.
This video explores how your retirement savings might be financing arms manufacturers making nuclear missiles, cluster bombs, and other controversial military weapons used in wars and armed conflicts all over the world. In less than 4 minutes, Grant Bradski walks you through As You Sow’s Weapon Free Funds tool, which is a resource for ethical investors seeking to align their portfolios with peace and sustainability.
Google’s fossil free fund option, by the numbers
These 401(k) savers cut their financed emissions by 70% with sustainable investing
Bankrolling Bombs
How Your 401(k) Funds the War Machine and What You Can Do About It
The Humanitarian Impacts and Investment Risks of Conventional Weapons
Conventional weapons cause immense human suffering, particularly when they are used with excessive force or indiscriminately against civilians, in violation of international human rights law.
The Ethical and Financial Risks of Investing in Controversial Weapons
How controversial weapons threaten global peace and your portfolio
University Retirement Plans are Funding the Destruction of their Students’ Future
Billions of dollars in university employee retirement savings are invested in companies with significant environmental and social risks
You Might be Invested in Military Weapon Manufacturers
What if I told you your hard-earned retirement savings are likely invested in companies that manufacture weapons of war?
How Google found a fossil free fund for their 401(k)
What to do if your bank is financing the climate crisis
When you put money in the bank, it doesn’t just sit in the vault. You may be surprised where it ends up.
The Earth has set heat records for 13 straight months - but Big Banks continue to finance fossil fuel expansion
Fossil Free Funds has updated our Fossil Fuel Finance ratings with new data on bank lending and underwriting
Is Your 401(k) Invested in Bomb Makers?
An analysis of 55 retirement plans found companies linked to nuclear or controversial weapons in their top holdings, with RTX Corp, Boeing, and GE Aerospace among the most frequent investments
Tech Employees’ $5 Billion Fossil Fuel 401(k) Price Tag
Workers are bearing the cost of their employers’ decision to offer retirement plans invested in high carbon industries
Our retirement savings own one fifth of U.S. fossil fuel stocks
The hidden link between your retirement nest egg and the fossil fuel industry
Cluster bombs, landmines, nuclear weapons found in largest 401(k) fund managers
Investing in companies involved in producing controversial weapons is a risky business
As You Sow engages companies to safeguard employee retirement savings from climate change
As we reach the end of another shareholder season, investors remain concerned about the climate risk prevalent in 401(k) plans across the U.S.
Are your 401(k) savings financing fossil fuel expansion?
Bonds in employer-offered 401(k)s directly provide cash to fossil fuel projects adding risk to portfolios. Our newest tool is here to help.
Vanguard, protect our finances from climate risk!
Vanguard has a responsibility to help safeguard clients from growing climate-related financial risks
These 200 clean energy leaders outperform dirty energy investments
The Clean200 identifies clean energy opportunities as investors turn away from the extractive economy
Defund gun violence in your 401(k)
Climate change isn’t the only risk facing your savings. Retirement funds are also invested in gun companies profiting from mass shootings
The Federal Reserve is already a climate policymaker
The Fed wants to wash its hands of the climate crisis. But through inaction, it's contributing to worsening economic risks
Finance and insurance ratings added to Fossil Free Funds
Banks and insurers that financially support fossil fuels may be hidden in your retirement portfolio
Does the BlackRock LifePath ESG Index reduce climate risk?
BlackRock has released sustainable versions of their popular LifePath target date funds, but investors question if this new fund series truly reduces climate risk, or if it’s just greenwashing
Which Vanguard Fund is More Sustainable, VTSAX or VFTNX?
Vanguard’s VTSAX fund is investing in the climate crisis, but there are sustainable alternatives that avoid climate-related financial risk
Urge asset managers to adopt a No Deforestation policy
Mutual fund managers are among the world’s top investors in agribusiness companies responsible for destroying our tropical rainforests
401(k) plans are forcing people to invest in fossil fuels
While companies talk up efforts to reduce emissions, their employee retirement plans are heavily invested in coal, oil, and gas
ESG ratings for target date funds
We’ve added a new group of funds commonly found in company 401(k)s to our database
Why is BlackRock’s Carbon Transition fund packed with Big Oil?
ETF that broke first day funding records, holds Exxon, Chevron, and major coal-fired utilities
Updating the Invest Your Values rating methodologies
Changes to how funds are assigned fossil fuel grades, deforestation grades, and more
Defining Sustainable Investments
Fossil Free Funds is now using a more selective definition of 'sustainability mandate'
The world’s largest asset managers have failed to prevent the global forest fire crisis
A guest post from Jeff Conant, Senior International Forest Program Managers at Friends of the Earth U.S.
Finding the right fossil free fund for you
Searching for top-scoring investments on deforestation, gender equality, and more
Now you can compare fossil free funds to index funds
New feature enables side-by-side comparisons between mutual funds
Webinar: Opportunities and Risks of Fossil Free Investing
Join us Wednesday, April 22 to learn about fossil free investing
From fossil fuels to forest fires: Tracking deforestation risk in investments
Healthy forests are an essential part of the global climate solution
Introducing the Sustainability Report Card
Bringing together data from As You Sow’s Invest Your Values tools
Fossil free investing and financial returns
There’s a common myth that says moving your money away from increasingly risky fossil fuel investments means having to sacrifice returns. But it’s not true.
BlackRock must invest for the Paris climate agreement
BlackRock has billions invested in companies with business models that are not in alignment with keeping global warming well below 2˚C.
Carbon polluting coal plants? In my retirement savings?!
Burning coal for power is a huge problem for climate change. It could be a problem for your 401(k) as well.
Measure the clean energy impact of your savings
Fossil Free Funds is adding Clean200 screening. Now each fund is scored on how it invests in clean energy leaders.
Vanguard’s quarter-trillion in fossil fuel investments
The investing giant Vanguard plays a major role funding carbon polluters.
Simple guide to fossil free investing
What if your savings could help save the world?
Your hard-earned dollars, invested in climate-killing coal power
Fossil Free Funds is partnering with Macroclimate to expose hidden investments in coal power plants.
Are your savings supporting clean energy or fossil fuels?
U.S. fund managers have far more invested in coal, oil, and gas than companies with green revenue — but a few are bucking the trend.