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  • "A mutual fund that plays politics."

    -BusinessWeek, 02/05/2007
  • "In one election after another, American voters have shown that they are sharply divided along partisan lines. Now, Americans have a new way to demonstrate whether they lean red or blue: through their choice of mutual fund."

    -New York Times, 01/07/2007
  • "Should investors care about the political beliefs of executives? According to the managers of The Blue Fund, a mutual fund launched in the US in time for the mid-term elections, they should."

    -Financial Times, 10/26/2006
  • "The fund industry has gone to great lengths to stay out of politics. The Blue Fund, which mixes politics with investing, tests that unwritten rule."

    -Barron's Online, 10/23/2006
  • "A fund company of the azure shade has an investing style designed to give the investment landscape a Democratic tinge."

    -Investment News, 10/23/2006
  • "The Blue Fund, launched on Tuesday, pledges only to invest in companies that make campaign contributions to Democrats. The new investment firm adds a political component to offset what it calls a lopsided relationship between the GOP and mutual fund[s]."

    -Associated Press, 10/20/2006
  • "Now you can put your money where your ballot is."

    -US News & World Report, 10/17/2006
  • "Just in time for a heated political campaign season comes the launching of The Blue Fund, a large-cap fund and a small-cap fund that hold companies that support Democrats with the majority of their political donations. The founders make no bones about their motivation--to promote progressivism."

    -Social Funds, 10/13/2006
  • "The Blue Fund uses a two-phase screening process to pick companies that Democrats can love.... Companies with progressive leaders are more likely to innovate and be flexible, more likely to treat employees better, more likely to work better with outside organizations that can burnish or damage brands, and more likely to earn the loyalty of committed customers."

    -Slate, 10/12/2006
  • "The Blue Large Cap Fund and sibling Blue Small Cap Fund will invest only in a managed index of US companies meeting its politically oriented investment criteria. The large-cap fund will comb the S&P 500, while the small-cap offering will use the Russell 2000 Index as its performance benchmark."

    -MarketWatch, 10/10/2006
  • "Democrats will soon have a new chance to vote with their wallets."

    -Bloomberg, 10/10/2006
  • "Dems finally get a mutual fund to call their own."

    -CNN, 06/16/2006

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