PA: Investing in the Planet
[ September 9, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ]
Investment and Climate Change
The first in a 3-part series of programs on socially responsible investment (SRI). Join us as SRI specialists discuss how investment decisions can be both profitable for the investor and beneficial for the planet.
Featuring:
Marc R. Dietrich, Vice President, Allianz Global Investors
Dr. Clyde Goulden, Director, Asia Center, The Academy of Natural Sciences
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Mutual Fund Benefits from Measuring Footprint
July 24, 2009 by admin2 · Leave a Comment
Green Century Balanced Fund is First U.S. Mutual Fund to Report its Carbon Footprint.
CSRwire.com — Boston, MA – July 22, 2009
The Green Century Balanced Fund announced today the results of its carbon footprint analysis, performed by leading environmental data and analysis firm Trucost. Based on measuring the tons of carbon emissions per million dollars [...]
Tax Credits=Grants
July 22, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Good news for investors.
Investors frustrated by incentives for energy projects, now tied to tax credits, welcome the news about cash grants.
On July 9th, Treasury and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the long-awaited details of how they intend to distribute approximately $3 billion of the Section 1603 energy grants to eligible renewable energy projects.
According to [...]
NASDAQ OMX and CRD Analytics Launch New Index Tracking Corporate Sustainability
June 15, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
In the recent downturn, companies that have voluntarily reported sustainability metrics have tended to hold their share value better than those who don’t. For that reason, many large institutional investors are looking to evaluate their portfolio using a reliable and transparent method. Using a proprietary SmartViewTM system, The NASDAQ OMX CRD Global Sustainability 50 [...]
Socially Responsible Investing
January 5, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
[ January 12, 2009 8:00 am to January 13, 2009 6:00 pm. ]
Responsible investing has well and truly infiltrated the mainstream, now showing an estimated $2.71 trillion in total assets under management. DON’T GET LEFT BEHIND ON THIS HUGE GROWTH CURVE.
This annual forum brings together a unique mix of pension funds, foundations, institutional asset managers, Wall Street firms, fund managers and ESG experts, providing a must-attend [...]