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In 1976, Calvert's co-founders, Wayne Silby and John Guffey, launched the first variable rate fund in the US before introducing the Calvert Social Investment Fund (CSIF) in 1982. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The Calvert Social Investment Fund (CSIF) was the first mutual fund to oppose Apartheid , and then one of the first groups to reinvest in free South Africa ...
By the end of 1983, Eaton Vance was managing 23 mutual funds and numerous individual and company accounts, with over $2.3 billion in their accounts. The company's major products were 34 low-risk and tax-free funds by late 1989. The next year, Eaton Vance started promoting its funds via banks, which resulted in a sales profit of $450 million.
In 1976, just out of law school, Silby co-founded Calvert Fund with John Guffey, his classmate from Wharton . [6] [8] The fund was the first money market fund to use government sponsored floating rate note to achieve high returns with added safety; [9] it managed more than $1 billion in assets by 1982.
The Calvert Social Index is a stock market index created by Calvert Investments as a benchmark of large companies that are considered socially responsible or ethical. [1] It currently consists of 680 companies, weighted by market capitalization, selected from approximately 1,000 of the largest publicly traded companies in the United States using Calvert's social criteria. [2]
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Socially responsible mutual funds counted by the 2014 Trends Report increased in number to 415 in 2014, up from 333 in 2012, 250 in 2010, 173 in 2005 and 2007, 189 in 2003, and 167 in 2001. The overall number of mutual funds incorporating environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) has increased four-fold since 2012.
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In addition to small individual investments, the fund received investment from the Piton Foundation, Gary Community Investments, Colorado Health Foundation, The Colorado Trust, and The Denver Foundation. In 2014, ULC partnered with Calvert Impact Capital to invest $10 million towards the purchase of three real-estate assets that support over 20 ...