Selected news
The following news have been selected due to their relevance for SFG members and sustainable finance professionals active in Geneva and Switzerland.
Sir Geoffrey Chandler obituary | |
Sir Geoffrey Chandler, who has died aged 88, was one of the earliest mainstream business figures to champion the lately fashionable idea of corporate social responsibility. As a senior Shell executive in 1976, he swam against the corporate tide to instigate and introduce the company’s first Statement of General Business Principles. This was well ahead [...] |
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EFAMA report on responsible investment | |
Responsible Investment (“RI”)1 is an important feature of the investment management industry. Investment managers, being fiduciaries acting on behalf of their clients2, may offer RI products to their clients, the asset owners, to whom they provide services and offer a choice as to the investment approach to be adopted. It is EFAMA3’s view that RI [...] |
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Clean energy Progress Report | |
Clean energy technologies are making clear progress globally, but fossil fuels continue to outpace them. More aggressive clean energy policies are required, including the removal of fossil fuel subsidies and implementation of transparent, predictable and adaptive incentives for cleaner, more efficient energy options. Thanks to favourable policy support, solar PV and windpower are achieving strong [...] |
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Green Investing 2011 Reducing the Cost of Financing | |
The clean energy space, like the rest of the world, has seen significant change since the release of the first Green Investing report more than two years ago. In Green Investing 2009: Towards a Clean Energy Infrastructure2, the World Economic Forum and Bloomberg New Energy Finance described what a low-carbon energy system would look like [...] |
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Protecting Our Best Interests: Rediscovering Fiduciary Duty | |
New research by FairPensions calls for an ‘enlightened fiduciary’ model for institutional investors to parallel the new duties of company directors introduced in 2006. The report argues that such a provision would provide a valuable ‘nudge’ towards sustainable, long term investment to overcome narrow interpretations of fiduciary obligation which emphasise profit maximisation at the exclusion [...] |
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Who’s winning the clean energy race? | |
The clean energy race is on. The investment and finance data presented in this report show that countries are jockeying for a leadership position in this growing and increasingly competitive sector. Countries with clear, consistent and constructive clean energy policies are powering investment forward. More… Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts |
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Ce papier s’efforce à étudier le lien entre la performance boursière d’une entreprise et ses relations salariales. L’étude utilise le classement annuelle des « 100 Best Companies To Work For » publié par le hebdomadaire américain Fortune afin de classer des entreprises en fonction de leur relations salariales. Pendant la période 1984–2009, l’auteur trouve un [...]
Le début d’une grande aventure | |
Secteur en pleine croissance, l’Impact Finance présente l’avantage sur l’ISR de résoudre les problématiques existantes. Genève est leader dans ce secteur. Ces dernières années, le concept de “développement durable” est au centre de nombreux débats concernant la préservation et l’avenir de notre planète. Depuis quelques temps, une nouvelle aproche d’investissement directement lié à la notion [...] |
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Sustainable investments in Switzerland reach all-time high according to onValues survey | |
Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen Schweiz and onValues today published the results of the regular survey of the Swiss sustainable investment market per end of December 2010, which includes sustainable assets managed in Switzerland through funds, mandates and structured products. A total of 21 managers reported their assets under management in a range of different sustainable investment [...] |
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Stock exchange chiefs slam mandatory SRI disclosure | |
Global stock exchanges chiefs rallied together during a recent meeting in Luxembourg to denounce investor-led campaigns advocating mandatory disclosure by companies of their responsible investing credentials. Speaking during a panel session at the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry’s (ALFI) responsible investing conference recently, heads of the Turkish and Luxembourg stock exchanges as well as [...] |
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