SRI Community Loses Luther Tyson, Pax Founder, at 85
The Rev. Dr. Luther Tyson, a founder of Pax World Funds, has died at 85.
In any short list of SRI’s indispensible people, Dr. Tyson’s name would appear close to the top. He was one of the founders of the Pax World Fund, the first SRI mutual fund. Pax World was also the first management company devoted solely to SRI.
His vision of a fund for investors who did not want to own companies that profited from the Vietnam War helped establish the legitimacy of using ethical values to guide investment decisions.
His obituary from the Boston Globe appears below.
