Thursday, 26 February 2009, 12h00 – 14h00, Cercle de la Terrasse, 4 rue Eynard / Members only
Le 26 février dernier, une vingtaine de gérants de fortune ont répondu positivement à l’invitation de SFG pour évoquer le thème Sustainable Finance and Private Banking. A cette occasion, un des participants a déclaré: “I enormously appreciated to take [...]

On January 28, 2009, IFC released the final report of the Who Cares Wins initiative. The Who Cares Wins 2008 report details the progress that has been made to increase the volume of capital that uses environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis as a key part of investment decisions. It also provides recommendations to scale [...]

Credit Suisse, Nestlé et UBS have accepted to go beyond their legal Swiss requirements and allow shareholders to vote on say-on-pay resolutions following a campaign by Ethos, the Geneva-based foundation which looks after CHF2.3bn (€1.4bn) in pension assets run on a socially responsible basis, and eight other Swiss Pension Funds. UBS has committed to put [...]

The Foundation de Luxembourg has been launched, less than one year on from Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker’s declaration that it was time for the country to develop a philanthropy policy. Speaking at a national symposium to generate philanthropic involvement from Luxembourg’s private sector in April 2008 he laid down the premise that has led to [...]

Fitch Ratings says that contrary to some industry views that microfinance is resilient to wider economic shocks, it will be difficult for the sector to remain immune from the global financial crisis.
As with the wider global financial system, Fitch expects the impact of the global financial crisis on the microfinance sector, to be two-fold: a [...]

Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its annual ethical ranking covering an enlarged universe of 541 multinationals within 18 sectors and based on a renovated calculation methodology combining popularity and diversified performance. The main results across sectors are: > The following companies enter the top 10: Xerox (5th), General Electric (8th), and DuPont (10th), replacing IBM [...]

Thursday, 22 January 2009, 17h30 – 19h00, Credit Suisse Forum / Public event

For its first seminar, SFG was pleased to welcome Matt Christensen, Executive Director of Eurosif (European Sustainable Investment Forum), who will present the key findings from the recent Eurosif study on HNWI and Sustainable Investment. The Eurosif study shows that HNWIs are [...]

CRS Geneva Talks and Drinks with Salil Tripathi, Institute of Human Rights and Business, 15th January 2009, 18h00, Restaurant la Broche, salle Combourgeoise, 1st floor, rue du Stand 36, Geneva. Salil is Director of Policy at the Institute of Human Rights and Business in London, chaired by Mary Robinson. Besides, he is also engaged as [...]

In November 2008, Oxfam 1 and Insight launched a new, year-long project: Better Returns in a Better World. The overall objective of this project is to assess the potential for investors to contribute to poverty alleviation through their investment activities. The project also aims to raise investor awareness of the importance of poverty alleviation as [...]

The World Economic Forum released today The Future of the Global Financial System; A Near-Term Outlook and Long-Term Scenarios. The report explores a near-term industry outlook characterized by an expanded scope for regulatory oversight, back to basics in the banking sector, some restructuring by alternative investment firms and the emergence of a new set of [...]