This Week in ESG and Impact Investing

Creative Investment Research, Inc. announced today that it's Diversity Index Portfolio returned 35.13% from April 19, 2011 to March 30, 2013. The Diversity Index is an investment portfolio containing stocks of the largest companies in the U.S. These companies have been selected because they have outstanding investment characteristics and are top performers with respect to four key measures of inclusion and diversity: Human capital, CEO commitment, corporate communications, and supplier diversity . By comparison, the S and P 500, or the Standard and Poor's 500, returned 18.14% over the same time period. According to Wikipedia, "The S and P 500 is a stock market index based on the market capitalizations of 500 leading companies publicly traded in the U.S. stock market, as determined by Standard and Poor's. It is one of the most commonly followed equity indices and many consider it the best representation of the market as well as a bellwether for the U.S. economy.&q