finance
INVESTING IN LGBT-FRIENDLY BUSINESSES:
EQUALITY FUNDS, INC. by Dan Groover
Marc Delphine
Equality Funds, Inc., recently announced the launch of Equality One, an investment fund for those who wish to invest in LGBT-friendly businesses. The organization also announced the criteria used to determine which businesses qualify as LGBT-friendly and offered statistics demonstrating how investments in LGBT-friendly businesses historically have produced higher returns. Additionally, the company expressed its commitment to work with businesses that are not currently meeting these standards to help them become LGBT-friendly. Marc Delphine, chief executive officer and founder of Equality Funds, is a financial advisor serving the LGBT community for the past 14 years. He was inspired to launch an investment vehicle that would enable investors to support the LGBT community by investing in a fund that only invests in LGBT-friendly companies. Delphine found that using assessments like the Human
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