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Founder & Analyst, Investing for the Soul
Publisher & Editor, The Soul Investor
Blog Author, Enlightened Economics
Mission
His personal mission is to help investors bring their higher values into investing decisions. This arose out of discussions, beginning in the 1960s, with numerous investors seeking to bring their spiritual, ethical, and ecological values into their investment selections.
Current Activities
Mr. Robins was, and still is, a pioneer in the concept of ethical investing. To help in this task, he conceived and created Investing for the Soul in 2001. By 2005, Investing for the Soul was offering Ethical Investing Workshops and Ethical Investing Services, talks, and enjoying widespread media coverage. The workshops and services show/assist investors and investment professionals in finding, researching, and evaluating investments according to a set of desired personal values.
In 2007, he added Ethical Investing News & Commentary to his website; an e-newsletter The Soul Investor; and the Enlightened Economics blog to create a discussion in formulating a practical economics that integrates consciousness, natural-law, and free-market theory.
Please not though, Mr. Robins is not an investment advisor and does not make investment recommendations.
Background/Education
Mr. Robins was born in 1948 in London, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1967. His education includes business and spiritual studies at institutions of higher learning in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada and the United States. Among his many qualifications are an MBA degree (joint major in finance and marketing), and Honours standing in the Canadian Securities Course.
Prior Investment Industry Experience
Mr. Robins has held investment analyst positions at two leading investment firms. Firstly at Bongard Leslie & Co. Ltd.—now for many years part of BMO Nesbitt Burns, Canada. This was followed by a more senior analyst position at Babson Canadian Reports, a distinguished Canadian investment advisor/manager in the 1970s that had an arms-length relationship to the prestigious U.S. investment firm, David L. Babson & Co. Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Babson’s, Mr. Robins also edited their weekly investment newsletter.
In the late 1990s, Mr. Robins worked for five successful years in a small Toronto investment boutique in global private investment securities sales to wealthy Americans and Europeans.
Teaching TM to Executives
Mr. Robins has also practiced and taught Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation (TM) programme for over 30 years. He is regarded as North America’s most successful marketer and instructor of this programme to executives, having given over 2,000 TM sales presentations and seminars. He has taught TM at leading North American corporations such as the Toronto-Dominion Bank and The Imperial Life Assurance Co. of Canada; at elite health clubs such as the Granite Club and The Fitness Institute; and has been a keynote speaker at functions of many organizations, Chambers of Commerce and Rotary Clubs.
His studies in spirituality have involved years in seclusion. It is his inner experiences of the beatitude within that greatly motivates him on his present path.
Media Coverage
Mr. Robins has also achieved significant media successes by authoring, publishing and promoting numerous articles and media stories on investment related matters, the TM programme, and spirituality. These stories included feature articles in the Financial Post, MarketWatch, The Toronto Star, and in broadcast media interviews with CFRB Radio and CBC Radio One, Toronto. Mr. Robins is also writing a book with the title, "Investing for the Soul -- Investing for Superior Profits and Spiritual Fulfillment."
TV & Radio interviews with Ron Robins discussing Investing for the Soul
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Report on Business Television, Business Morning, with Jim O'Connell, June 21, 2005, at 11:15am
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CIUT Radio, Toronto, The First Word with host Wendy Baker, June 20, 2005, at 9:15am.
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Rogers Television (Cable 10 & 63), Toronto, Money Line with host Linda Leatherdale, November 15, 2004, 7pm-8pm.
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CBC Radio One, Toronto, Metro Morning with Michael Hlinka, (business commentator), and Andy Berry (host), September 20, 2004 at 6:45am.
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680 News, Toronto, Weekend Business Minute with James Munroe, played repeatedly throughout the day of September 18, 2004.
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ENN Radio, U.S. With interviewer Jerry Kay, August 4, 2004. Played repeatedly on their member stations and the SIRIUS Satellite Network.
Published articles by, or about, Ron Robins & Investing for the Soul
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Ron Robins: Investing for the Soul, by Vita Sgardello, VITA Europe, November 5, 2008.
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The Ethics of Statistics, by Ron Robins, Canadian Treasurer, October-November, 2007.
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The Media & Government Statistics, by Ron Robins, The Corporate Ethics Monitor, September-October 2006.
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The passion of investing. Putting your beliefs to work for higher returns, by Thomas Kostigen, CBS MarketWatch, August 23, 2005.
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Investing using a 2,000-year-old strategy, by Michael Swan, The Catholic Register, August 15, 2005.
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Listen to this. Pension education can be an employee benefit, by Ron Robins, Canadian Treasurer, December 2005/ January 2006.
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Moral Investing: How pension education can be an employee benefit. by Ron Robins, HR Professional, April-May, 2005. Discusses the reasons why companies should offer socially and environmentally responsible investing workshops for their employees.
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Moral Investing: Employers should offer employees workshops on ethical investing for their RRSPs, by Ron Robins, Straight Goods, June 13, 2005.
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Soul man preaches 'values' investing, by William Hanley, Financial Post, FP Money, September 11, 2004. An article about Ron Robins and Investing for the Soul.
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Good for the soul, if not the wallet, by Jonathon Chevreau, Financial Post, FP Investing, September 14, 2004. An article about Ron Robins and the performance of Canadian socially responsible investing mutual funds.
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A Healthy Investment, by Ron Robins, New Directions, October/November, 2004, P. 32. An article relating our health to the health of our investments.
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Investing for the Soul Workshop, by Ron Robins, Vitality, September, 2004, P.134.
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Careful about your food, what about your investments? by Ron Robins, Lifelines (publication of the Toronto Vegetarian Association), September-October, 2004, front-page. (PDF)
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The Unfulfilled Investor, by Ron Robins, FORUM, Social Investment Organization, Canada, June 2003, P. 9.
Editorials by Ron Robins for Investing for the Soul
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Voluntary Simplicity? An Ethical Investing Perspective, May 13, 2009.
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Can SRI Ratings Predict Stock & Portfolio Performance? March 13, 2009.
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Can SRI Ratings Predict Corporate Behaviour? March 13, 2009.
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Investing Returns: Virtue vs. Sin, December 12, 2008.
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We Need Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting, October 17, 2008.
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Top Ethical Investing Indices: A Global Overview, September 5, 2008.
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Advisor: KNOW Your Client. It means more now. August 12, 2008.
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LOHAS - opportunities for ethical investors, June 3, 2008.
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Everyone becoming a Cultural Creative, May 22, 2008.
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Retiring the GDP (Gross Domestic Product), May 8, 2008.
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Unethical US Job Numbers? Revised and updated December 13, 2007.
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Unethical Statistics – the US consumer price index? Revised and updated, December 14, 2007.
Blog posts by Ron Robins -- see Enlightened Economics
Ron Robins' Company
Founded in 2002
Investors desiring a better world, concerned about ethics, or their spiritual development, the environment, and so on, must incorporate related values in their investing decisions. The reason for this is that when we invest in a company, (or many companies such as in a mutual fund, unit trust, ETF, etc.), we share in the responsibility for the activities of those companies as well as participate in the outcomes of their corporate actions.
So let us invest in companies whose activities we believe are most helpful to us ethically, spiritually, and for life, generally. By applying our ethical and higher values to investing, we not only help create a better life for us all, but potentially enjoy higher profits from our investments as well.
Indeed, the accumulating masses of investment reports and studies suggest that outperformance of portfolio returns is frequently possible by employing such values-based investment strategies. (See Ethical Investing Studies/Research).
Helping you accomplish such goals and available on our website are pages covering: Ethical Investing News And Commentary, Article Archives, Books, and Research Links.
However, to truly gain the benefits of a personal values approach, participate in the valuable services listed below.
Services for Investors, Investment Professionals,
& Companies
For investors we show you how to find and research companies and investments that could reflect your own personal values. This is easily and enjoyably accomplished through our unique and highly praised Ethical Investing Workshops and Tutorial: Finding Stocks That Reflect Your Values—which are available remotely.
For licensed investment advisors, financial planners, and portfolio managers, we can help you find investments and create portfolios that reflect personal value preferences. This is achieved through an array of original specialized services that includes a Tutorial: Finding & Evaluating Stocks That Reflect Personal Values, a Company Research Service, a Portfolio Audit Service and specialist workshops to orient your clients/staff to ethical or values-based investing.
For companies, we can offer specially designed workshops for managers and employees that show staff how to locate and research investments that could emulate their own individual values. For details please Contact Us.
Please note though, that we do not offer investment advice.
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