SocialFunds.com/Motley Fool:
Investor Survey on Corporate Responsibility
These results were tallied from 755 completed surveys.
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| 1 - Do issues with corporate
responsibility, accountability and ethics concern
you? |
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Yes |
92.45% |
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No |
2.78% |
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| 2 - Are you evaluating how
can protect your portfolio from accounting and
executive scandals? |
Yes
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71.66%
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No
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22.91%
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| 3 - Which of the following
strategies are you evaluating
(multiple answers possible): |
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Hanging tough |
50.60%
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Moving from stocks and bonds to CDs
and money markets |
13.77%
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Selling a stock or bond at the first
sign of trouble |
9.67%
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In-depth reading of financial statements
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41.32%
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Assessing a company's social, environmental,
and corporate governance records |
54.04%
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Not sure what to do |
29.80%
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| 4- A company is
accountable to:
(multiple answers possible) |
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the board of directors |
55.63%
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shareholders |
89.01%
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customers |
78.01%
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employees |
81.32%
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community |
72.58%
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government |
52.72%
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