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March 5, 2010

Le véritable investissement – La solution à la crise financière passe par l’investissement socialement responsable.
Ivan Pictet, Associé Senior de la Banque Pictet, président de la Fondation Genève Place Financière. Avec ses deux pôles stratégiques que sont l’importante place financière et la forte concentration d’organisations internationales, Genève est appelée à jouer un rôle clé pour une économie internationale plus équitable, plus stable et plus solide à long terme. En effet, [...]

March 4, 2010

Annie E. Casey Foundation Pledges Additional $25 Million for Socially Responsible Investment Practices
The Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation has announced that it is setting aside an additional $25 million for social investments — a set of strategies that uses endowment funds to generate financial returns as well as social returns to advance the foundation’s mission. The allocation is in addition to the $100 million the foundation had [...]

March 2, 2010

More Than 50 Companies Voluntarily Adopt “Say on Pay” as Institutional Investors Continue to Press for an Advisory Vote
Investors pushing for annual advisory shareholder votes on executive compensation today announced that more than 50 companies have now voluntarily adopted giving their shareholders an annual advisory vote on executive compensation, colloquially known as “Say on Pay.” This milestone comes in the midst of the continued public debate focusing on executive compensation and Wall Street’s [...]

February 15, 2010

Questionnaire to determine the need of financial institutions for climate-change related data and services
Dear Friends and Signatories of UNEP FI, We would like to invite you to participate in a survey by completing the attached questionnaire, which will take you 10 minutes. The survey, undertaken jointly by UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the German Sustainable Business Institute (SBI) with the support of the Federal Government of Germany, [...]

February 11, 2010

Paul Hawken’s winning investment strategy
If you believe that companies that are strongly committed to socially and environmentally sound practices will outperform their peers in the long run, then you would expect so-called socially responsible investment (SRI) funds to deliver superior returns to investors. The trouble is, they don’t. Sure, some years the mutual funds run by the Calvert, Domini, [...]

February 9, 2010

Covalence Ethical Snapshots: monthly company profiles for finance professionals
Covalence Ethical Snapshots are monthly profiles of companies for finance professionals who use extra-financial information in their decision-making. These one-pagers can be ordered on a single or subscription basis, for a company, a sector or the full universe (581 companies within 18 sectors). This product is available at covalence.ch/shop, as well as on major financial [...]

February 2, 2010

Macif gestion et living planet fund management company lancent le living planet fund – bonds
Living Planet Fund Management Company, filiale du WWF International, s’associe à Macif Gestion, filiale à 100% du groupe Macif, pour le lancement de son premier fonds obligataire responsable. Le Living Planet Fund – Bonds, fonds d’investissements socialement responsables (ISR) de droit français, investit en obligations émises dans la zone OCDE. Son but est de permettre [...]

Responsible investing & corporate governance: lessons learned for shareholders from the crises of the last decade
The repeated corporate crises of the last decade (Tyco, Enron, Worldcom and most recently the various crises that have engulfed the global financial sector) have caused significant economic harm to the public, investors and TIAA-CREF participants. In their aftermath, there has been a vigorous debate among market participants about the root causes of these various [...]

February 1, 2010

SEC Ruling on Proxy Disclosure Is Likely to Lead to Increased Shareowner Activism
In the aftermath of December’s adoption by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of amendments to enhance information provided in proxy solicitations, the Corporate Library has published an overview entitled “What To Expect During Proxy Season 2010.” The report is available for free download on the Corporate Library’s website. The SEC’s ruling on Proxy Disclosure [...]

Des clés pour investir dans l’après-Copenhague
Tout le monde savait que Copenhague serait un échec, mais les interrogations portaient sur l’ampleur de cet échec. Les conséquences pour l’investisseur des «événements qui ne se sont pas passés à Copenhague» ont été l’objet d’une conférence organisée par Sustainable Finance Geneva la semaine dernière. Copenhague a été un échec par manque de confiance des [...]

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