While Canadian universities are intellectual leaders on sustainability, they are lagging behind their American and European counterparts when it comes to incorporating environmental and social concerns into their own investments, according to a new coalition. “Universities are endangering more than their reputations,” says Omar Dominguez, chair and co-founder of Coalition of Universities for Responsible Investing [...]

Today Novethic is releasing the results of its exclusive annual review of the French market for Socially Responsible Investment (SRI). SRI assets under management owned by French clients reached EUR 68.3 billion, representing a 35% increase between the end of 2009 and the end of 2010. This robust growth stems from the conversion of large [...]

There is an increasing amount of evidence that sustainability criteria such as Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) factors are too important to be ignored when making investment decisions today. This is especially true of the ‘New Normal’ investment environment where low return expectations and high uncertainty are the norm. In this world, all risk [...]

CP Research bases its rating on a detailed analysis of each fund after a RFP filled in by the company and a meeting with its research and management teams. The rating takes into account three basic criteria: The company’s means in terms of research and management: the team’s organization, experience and stability, its tools and [...]

A la Suite de la publication du dossier sur « La rareté de l’eau dans les pays industrialisés » (6/04/2011), Green et Vert donne la parole à Valérie Issumo, présidente de Prana Sustainable Water, un projet de bourse éthique de l’eau.Green et Vert : Quelle est l’origine de votre projet ? Valérie Issumo : C’est [...]

Né dans le monde anglo-saxon il y a déjà plus d’un siècle, l’investissement socialement responsable a connu plusieurs phases d’accélération au cours du temps, chacune d’entre elles intimement liée à l’évolution des motivations des investisseurs et aux innovations que l’industrie financière spécialisée a développées en réponse. La première vague, initiée par des congrégations religieuses, s’est [...]

« La crise financière nous a montré les dangers d’une absence de réglementation de la finance, et le lien entre le secteur financier et la société a été rompu. Il est temps non seulement de réparer ce lien, mais également que le secteur financier rende un peu de ce qu’il a pris à la société [...]

Lorsque l’on aborde le sujet de l’ISR avec des investisseurs, une des questions principales qui revient constamment est celle de la performance financière de ce type d’investissement. Une abondante littérature existe désormais à ce sujet, et même si ce débat n’est pas tout à fait clos, une majorité des études semble conclure qu’investir de manière [...]

Jefferies hosted its 11th Global Clean Technology Conference on February 23-24 in New York, with more than 100 public and private companies and 700 attendees, including strategic and financial investors, high-level policymakers and industry thought-leaders in attendance. The Jefferies CleanTech Survey, which was conducted at the conference, was designed to provide insight into investors’ views [...]

Energy efficiency is the accomplishment of or the ability to accomplish a task with a minimum expenditure of energy. Improved energy efficiency can result in cost and emissions savings and reduce the dependency on non-renewable energy sources. Efficient energy use is one key strategy in combating climate change and other environmental impacts created by the [...]