Amy Domini
Amy Domini is an American investment adviser and author known for her work in "social investing". As one of the founders of KLD Research & Analytics, Inc., she helped created the Domini 400 Social Index, a stock market index selected according to a set of social and environmental standards. Since its inception in 1990, the Domini 400 has outperformed the S&P 500 on a cumulative basis.
Background
Amy Domini is the founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments, whose investment products include the Domini Social Equity Fund (based on the Domini 400 Social Index), the Domini Social Bond Fund and Domini Money Market Account, each of which is designed to channel capital to poor communities, and the Domini European Social Equity Fund, which was launched in October 2005.
In 2005, Time magazine named Amy Domini to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people. Later that year, President Bill Clinton honored her at the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative for helping protect children and the environment through the Domini Global Giving Fund.