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Sudan Divestment: Screening Tool for Genocide-Free Stocks Deputs

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Posted by: CareTaker on June 26, 2008 Under: Business & Technology, Editor's Pick, Sudan, USA



Foliofn Investments, an American firm has just introduced the first-ever screening tool to let investors build portfolios free of companies that support and profit from the genocide in Sudan.

Foliofn Investments launched in May of this year help customers automatically screen out companies on the Genocide Intervention Network’s “highest offenders” list of firms that operate or trade in Sudan and thereby, according to the network, share complicity in marginalizing portions of the country’s local population.

On the web.

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