EcoGEOS > April 30, 2008
God and Mammon FORBES.COM: The notion of ethical investing goes ...
[The Shrewd Economist] But the market for ethical investments has always remained a niche. The goals of maximizing profit and fulfilling a moral agenda conflict more often than they complement one another, and investors who want to put ethics first have turned out to be relatively few.
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Wal-Mart and Ethical Investing Again!
[Wake-Up Wal-Mart Blog] On Grupo Ferrovial, which includes airport operator BAA, the joint Ethical Council has requested the company preserve a protected area as part of a road construction project in Poland and strengthen its risk analysis for the assessment of environmental risks on similar projects.
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April 30, 2008
God and Mammon FORBES.COM: The notion of ethical investing goes ...
[The Shrewd Economist] But the market for ethical investments has always remained a niche. The goals of maximizing profit and fulfilling a moral agenda conflict more often than they complement one another, and investors who want to put ethics first have turned out to be relatively few.
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Posted at 02:01 PM
April 23, 2008
Wal-Mart and Ethical Investing Again!
[Wake-Up Wal-Mart Blog] On Grupo Ferrovial, which includes airport operator BAA, the joint Ethical Council has requested the company preserve a protected area as part of a road construction project in Poland and strengthen its risk analysis for the assessment of environmental risks on similar projects.
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Posted at 02:04 PM
Socially Responsible Investing Confuses the Ethical Issues
[ethics for the real world] . In other words we screen-out companies from investment consideration that engage in unethical behaviors such as supporting South Africa during Apartheid or supporting Sudan given the current atrocities in Darfur. We are collectively willing to accept lower financial returns in order to avoid supporting these activities with our endowment.
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Posted at 02:03 PM
April 19, 2008
2008 World's Most Ethical Companies to Be Announced in June
[Business Wire Professional Services News] NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Ethisphere Institute, a think-tank dedicated to the research and promotion of profitable best.
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Posted at 09:02 AM
April 16, 2008
Expo announced for ethical investments
[London Stock Exchange | Investment News] Organisers The UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF) hopes that the event will highlight the benefits of investing ethically and promote the practice among consumers.
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Posted at 02:02 PM
Act now: NZ Superannuation Fund investments in death and destruction
[Investment Watch] Some MPs have already told people from their electorates that “the government, in framing the legislation which governs the operation of the Super Fund, expressly decided that responsibility for determining the investment strategy of the Fund should rest with independent investment experts (the Board of Guardians), and outside the sphere of politics” - you could point out that this is a lame excuse for inaction in the face of injustice, if the legislation was framed that way, it can readily be changed so that the government takes some responsibility to ensure the investments are ethical and that they do not breach NZ legislation, nor internationally binding legal obligations.
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Posted at 02:01 PM
April 12, 2008
THE DEBATE ON ETHICAL INVESTMENT
[Green Money] Dr Robert Howell, CEO of the Council for Socially Responsible Investment, said that today's conference challenges business and government to ensure that working conditions and ethical behavior are a key consideration for investors: "Yet, how can investors be assured about the type of investment they are making? How do we, so far from the rest of the world, know whether the practices of the offshore organisations we're investing in are ethical and sustainable?
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Posted at 09:03 AM
Linking Genocide and Investments
[The Genocide Blog] The Investors Against Genocide site states that “ethical investing” must have a minimum standard- no one should want to earn their retirement or savings from the dead bodies of a genocide.
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Posted at 09:01 AM
April 09, 2008
Wall St Vs Jihad
[Fortress Australia Outpost] For its proponents and ideological enablers ”” such as the well known suicide-bombing advocate, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi ”” sharia finance is nothing less than “Jihad with money.” As al-Qaradawi explains, “God has ordered us to fight enemies with our lives and with our money.” Unfortunately for Wall Street, it’s hard to argue with the good sheikh on that score. Far from being a guide to ethical investment, sharia finance is indistinguishable from sharia itself.
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Posted at 02:01 PM
April 05, 2008
City takes £500000 from arms trade
[The Inquirer] Tim Street, coordinator of the universities network at Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), argued that students, especially in engineering departments, often feel under pressure to abandon ethical considerations. With the British government heavily subsidising arms companies there is often little choice but to “collaborate” with the military industry if you want a highly-paid engineering job.
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Posted at 09:02 AM
Ethical investments seen as low risk
[Banking Times: Daily Banking News] While in recent years interest in ethical and green products has been gaining pace generally, Mark Robertson, a spokesman for EIRS believes that some “savvy” investors are beginning to see that ethical savings products could be “attractive investment propositions - especially in the longer term”.
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