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[JustPublicity.com » Press Release] JustPublicity.com - More Than 50 Investor Groups, Social ...: Among the signers is Ceres, a leading coalition of investors and environmental groups that has been working with many of the nation’s largest investors to persuade the SEC to issue guidance on ESG disclosure companies should be providing. “Institutional investors need standardized, comparable reporting on ESG risks and opportunities to integrate this information into their investment decision-making,”

[The Glass Hammer] Practicing Sustainability in Asset Management » The Glass Hammer: Whether the focus is on the preservation of timber in North or South America or Indonesia, safeguarding the environment globally, growing sustainable palm oil, bringing improved health care or micro-financing to developing nations, or advocating for improved corporate governance, the NGO community has been a driver of corporate and organizational change on many ESG challenges. The expertise and influence that NGO’s have developed over time has allowed them to become stewards of good behavior and, in many cases, friends, rather than antagonists, of

[Investopedia.com Headlines] Socially Responsible Stocks: Do Good Deeds Punish Profits?: Socially responsible companies also face fewer of the costs and risks associated with class-action lawsuits, consumer boycotts, unfavorable government rulings or legislation and other risks arising from socially irresponsible actions. These are contingencies that usually don't show up in financial statements, yet they have the capacity to inflict sudden and dramatic setbacks in cost structures and profit opportunities - for example, if a court awards substantial compensation to plaintiffs or the government issues an edict imposing stricter emission controls.

[Money Management RSS Feed] ESG: what really drives company values: And earlier this year, the fifth annual Wealth and Values Survey by the PNC Financial Services Group, found that the majority of wealthy Americans (who that have at least US$500,000 in investable assets) have ”˜green’ values, reporting a keen interest in environmental issues and companies that follow a socially responsible path.

[Recrutement BNP Paribas - Offres - Stage] News - BNP Paribas Assurance launches three socially responsible ...: After integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in its general fund (55 billion euros), BNP Paribas Assurance is addressing expectations expressed by clients in a 2008 survey (see press release in Life Insurance and SRI, April 17, 2008) showing that half of all clients were ready to invest a portion of their contract in socially responsible funds.

[EcoGEOS] EcoGEOS: Sustainable Stocks To Watch: Sustainable Finance - Ethical Pulse: In this update, we identify the current issues surrounding sustainable investment, also known as ”Ëœsocially responsible' investment (SRI) or .Business Impacts Competitive Advantage: “We're at a point where socially responsible investing is evolving beyond avoidance strategies””eliminating companies that are involved in tobacco, for example””to ones that take an integrated look at ESG.

[Investment Executive - News] Investment Executive - News - Industry news - Socially responsible ...: Released on Thursday, the report by the Social Investment Organization finds that assets invested according to socially responsible guidelines have increased to $609.23 billion from $503.61 billion in 2006, when the last review was conducted. This represents a growth rate of 21%, down from growth of more than 600% between 2004 and 2006.

[Trillium Asset Management Corporation] trilliuminvest.com » Blog Archive » Keeping the SRI in ESG: The new sustainability shops have worked hard to differentiate themselves from traditional SRI - that is, us. The claim is that the new ESG approach improves upon traditional SRI in that it is forward-looking and focused on uncovering investment opportunities in a more sustainable world, without being hampered by negative screening and without taking on controversial shareholder advocacy.

[ResourcesForLife.com] Socially Responsible Green Eco Investing - SRI Advantage - CREF ...: Therefore, the third, fourth and fifth full paragraphs on pages 28 and 29 of the Prospectus (which start with “Companies that are currently excluded…” and end with the paragraph that starts “The Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee…”) should be replaced with the following language:

[KLD BLOG] KLD BLOG » Investors Should Look Beyond the Letter of the Law ...: SRI, ESG, antitrust, Climate change, Emerging Markets, Engagement, Foundations & Endowments, Globalization, Green Building, Investments, KLD, Law & Economics, Management, Microfinance, Mission-based Investing, Organic Food, Pensions, Private Equity, .Norway's government is a leading advocate and practitioner of sustainable/socially responsible investing (SRI).

[MAXfunds.com - A better way of looking at mutual funds.] Socially Responsible Fund Family Fined For Buying Socially ...: Call us old fashioned, but when Pax world says their investment philosophy include so-called sustainable investing, "the full integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment analysis and decision making", we don't expect to see the number one holding on 6/30/08 of the Pax World Value Fund (PAXVX) to be Whiting Petroleum Corp (WLL), a company involved in "exploration, development, exploitation, and production of oil and gas primarily in the Permian Basin, Rocky Mountains, Mid-Continent, Gulf Coast, and Michigan regions of the United States" that was busted by the EPA and had to pay a fine under the clean water act for spilling oil into an tributary of Whitetail Creek in North Dakota.

[KLD BLOG] KLD BLOG » SRI and the Fiduciary Duty of Australian Trustees: Some ...: Can trustees and their fund managers pursue socially responsible investing? It has been argued that while an individual can consider non-financial factors in evaluating a stock, trustees must only seek the highest immediate return for their clients.

[Crise e Oportunidade] Qualitative Growth (Fritjof Capra e Hazel Henderson) « Crise e ...: Numerous systemic solutions of this kind have recently been developed and tested around the world.(20) They make it evident that the shift from quantitative to qualitative growth, using all the new quality-of-life and well-being indicators, can steer countries from environmental destruction to ecological sustainability, and from unemployment, poverty, and waste to the creation of meaningful and dignified work. This global transition to sustainability is no longer a conceptual, nor a technical problem.

[KLD BLOG] KLD BLOG » Engagement: KLD & the Companies We Research: KLD is criticized on the one hand for not routinely ”˜naming and shaming’ companies dropped for ESG reasons and on the other for not advancing index companies as ”˜socially responsible’. Neither course of action serves the indexes’ purpose: to identify companies that comprise either a benchmark universe or an investment strategy for social investors.

[Worldchanging: Bright Green] Worldchanging: Bright Green: Social Investment, Social Capital and ...: With those reminders that even the most seemingly entrenched systemsdo change, Alperovitz turned his focus to the immediate concerns of theSRI conference -- money and the social weal -- and the question of"what's our role in achieving that change?" He began by chastising theindustry: "Current income and wealth trends aren't being challenged:the top one percent in the US have more income than bottom 100 million,and control about half of all investment capital, while five percentowns 70 percent; it's a medieval distribution of wealth.

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