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Financial Professionals

Potential Benefits of Clients Investing with Green Century

Financial advisors today face increasing client demand for investments that align with their environmental values while still delivering competitive returns. With nearly 35 years of experience as one of the first families of fossil-fuel-free and environmentally responsible mutual funds, Green Century helps you meet your clients’ growing interest in sustainable investing while addressing their long-term financial goals. Green Century’s three mutual funds present these sustainable investing opportunities for you to offer your clients through our three-part approach.

A sustainable investment strategy which incorporates environmental, social and governance criteria may result in lower or higher returns than an investment strategy that does not include such criteria.

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Green Century’s Approach

We work with financial professionals to support their clients and help navigate economic and environmental change by following our three-part approach:
Sustainable Investments

Avoiding environmentally harmful industries and companies.

Shareholder Advocacy

Leading an award-winning program that improves corporate environmental practices.

Supporting Non-Profits

Supporting environmental and public health nonprofit organizations.

Green Century Funds

Green Century offers three sustainable mutual funds for you and your clients to choose from:

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Century MSCI International Index Fund

The Green Century MSCI International Index Fund is one of the first fossil fuel free index funds available to U.S. investors. This passive fund invests in the stocks of foreign companies in developed markets outside of the U.S.

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Green Century Equity Fund

The passively managed Green Century Equity Fund invests in the stocks of U.S.-based companies that comprise one of the longest-running sustainability indexes, the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index, customized to screen out fossil fuel companies.

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Green Century Balanced Fund

The Green Century Balanced Fund is an actively managed multi-asset principled portfolio built on environmental screens and criteria and financial quality assessment.

 

Purchasing Our Sustainable Funds

The Green Century Funds are available for purchase through most financial intermediaries and platforms, including Charles Schwab and Fidelity.

The Funds are also available for purchase directly through Green Century.

If the Green Century Funds are not yet available through your broker, please contact Matt Dunlap to establish a Selling Agreement.

Reach Out For More Information

If you have any questions regarding Green Century and our sustainable investing funds, please email Gigi Norcross or call us Toll-Free at: 1-800-934-7336

Download Our Resources

Learn more about our sustainable investments with our client-approved, easily downloadable, impact reports and resources.

 

 

Spotlight: Sample Company Profiles

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Green Bonds Benefit Bay Area

As an investor in the Green Century Balanced Fund, your money supports a green bond that helps improve public transportation in the San Francisco region with the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) rail system.
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Schneider Electric Aims to Cut Carbon Footprint

Green Century° investors further the sustainability goals of companies held in its International Index Fund, including Schneider Electric, which creates software and services for energy management.
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Bridgestone Explores Reuse & Recycle Options

Natural rubber is a key raw material and a vital renewable resource for tiremakers such as Bridgestone, one of the holdings in the Green Century International Index Fund. The Japanese company is also exploring ways to reuse and recycle it products for a sustainable planet.
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Williams-Sonoma Aims to Operate Sustainably

Williams-Sonoma Inc., one of the many sustainable holdings in the Green Century Equity Fund, aims to protect forests and operate sustainably.

Leadership

Key Strategies to Sustainable Investing

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Sustainable Investments

We help people align their investments with their values by avoiding environmentally harmful industries and companies. This way, Green Century investors do not prop up fossil fuel, weapons, tobacco, and other industries that investors do not wish to support.

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Shareholder Advocacy

Our award-winning Shareholder Advocacy team takes on global corporations and convinces them to adopt policies and accountability on issues that improve our lives and help to protect the environment.

Last season, our team met with top executives at 58 companies and secured 11 policy changes.

View our Recent Shareholder Victories Fact Sheet and our Impact Reports.

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Mission-Driven Owners

Since 1991, every dollar Green Century earns managing its Funds belongs to our nonprofit owners and their work. This unique aspect makes Green Century truly a distinctive firm, even among other firms that offer sustainable investing strategies.

Our owners work for issues in the public interest. They have championed initiatives for cleaner air, water and energy. The only mutual fund in the U.S. created by nonprofits, which own 100% of Green Century’s profits.

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