Le professeur Jean-Michel Servet analyse l’émergence du «social business». L’entrepreneuriat social, ou «social business» émerge. Ces entreprises cherchent le simple équilibre financier et veulent répondre à des besoins de populations à faibles revenus. Leur efficacité reste à démontrer. Pendant un quart de siècle, la construction des sociétés civiles a été marquée [...]

How can investors be encouraged to consider more than purely commercial and short-term gains? Various sets of investment principles have emerged in recent years. These principles aim to incorporate social, environmental and governance criteria into investment decisions in order to enhance the benefits and reduce the damaging effects of investment for [...]

Impact Finance Fund (IFF), a Luxembourg SICAV-SIF, is the first fund of its kind to place measurable impact at the core of its investment methodology, thanks to a proprietary measurement system. The fund will make direct loans to small and medium size sustainable businesses in both emerging market and developed countries. [...]

This new analysis by Carbon Tracker discovers that: Already in 2011, the world has used over a third of its 50-year carbon budget of 886GtCO2, leaving 565GtCO2; All of the proven reserves owned by private and public companies and governments are equivalent to 2,795 GtCO2; Fossil fuel reserves owned by the top 100 listed coal [...]

La planète a pris la route des choses oubliant celle de l’esprit. Sans doute la source de nos passions est-elle l’amour de soi. Mais elle se double d’une réciprocité, l’assujettissement à l’autre. On n’est jamais quitte à l’égard d’autrui car on se construit au contact de l’autre. L’homme seul ne peut survivre et c’est dans [...]

Stocks that score high on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are also the securities that perform the best, according to research by Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM). “Research conducted by CFSGAM revealed that the top-rated ESG stocks in its global listed infrastructure portfolio outperformed the bottom-rated stocks by more than 20 per [...]