Deseret News best of 2012: Financial responsibility

In the 1980s, Amy Domini was working as a Boston stockbroker when she realized something that surprised her: while all of her clients were interested in making a profit, many had ethical boundaries which kept them from investing in certain businesses.

Some clients avoided tobacco companies, for example, because a loved one had died of lung cancer. Others wouldn't invest in lumber companies because of a love of birding.

Such was the impetus for the Domini 400, the first index of “socially responsible” stocks.

Read the full report here: Moral investor