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Website lists pension funds and managers with shares in oil giants.
Swiss sustainability manager names interim dual CEOs
Launch follows disappointing environmental reporting levels found by survey.
Companies to report on business-wide risks and opportunities of climate management.
A group of US charitable foundations are developing an environmental, social and governance-focused emerging markets equity fund with the aid of consulting firm Cambridge Associates.
Fund to buy FSC certified timberland in North America, Australia, New Zealand and EU.
Call comes ahead of major Poznan and Copenhagen climate change summits.
Bank examines asset allocation with pension funds to find appropriate products.
98 fund managers running $19.4 trillion in assets predict responsible investment market will jump by 35% in next two years.
Second part of RI Landscape 2008 for asset managers now open.
Generation, F&C, Walden and KBC win fund mandates.
Letters sent to SEC challenging regulator’s plans on independent board nominees.
Group aims to galvanise 500 institutional investors and thousands of retail investors and flood the SEC with e-mails
New York scheme broadens its activist investment approach
Former CalPERS CIO returns to the US after 18 months at UK activist manager
After Live Earth, Al Gore’s fund management firm launches a hybrid climate change solutions fund.
US superfund has Hewlett-Packard and UnitedHealth Group in its sights

Support for ESG considerations high, but caution on fiduciary responsibilities.

What could the various green global economic stimuli mean for institutional investors?

Giant Danish fund expects to commit more after initial clean tech/renewables and sustainable forestry investments.

Attractively priced deals and long-term ‘green’ stimulus make market look attractive despite the doldrums.

If pension funds want good governance they will have to invest in it.

After a decade ‘out-of-kilter’, Domini believes SRI strategies are in tune with the new US regime.

Stronger governance, investor rights and a green-based economic revival.

How ESG implementation could be the beginning of a solution to the market meltdown.

Attacked for political investing, could sovereign wealth funds actually be the most important future trend in ESG finance?

Georg Kell, executive director of the corporate forerunner of the UNPRI talks about the issues the $14 trillion investor initiative may have to face.
Ceres President, Mindy Lubber, explains how US policy is coming around to its way of thinking on the environment.

PRI signatories gather in Seoul for the annual progress meeting of the huge investor initiative.

Why the biggest challenge now is to get relevant extra-financial analysis direct to mainstream analysts.

The sub-prime crisis has re-opened questions about the quality and independence of sell side research.

UK research company celebrates 25th year of corporate and SRI scrutiny.

Market saviours or dangerous political investors? Sovereign wealth funds have got governments in a funk.
Why foundations should use the markets to support their philanthropic work.
Supporting renewable energy is a first step, but banks must also come clean about fossil fuel financing.

Canadian shareholders are weary of the “huge disconnect” between what many executives earn and how the companies they run perform.

Why sustainability has an impact on real estate value and should play a central role in investment decisions.

Compensation concerns in focus as US meeting season looms.

Company plans new SRI strategy to add to microfinance, sustainable real estate and community banking.

Why was the potential role of investors virtually absent from Davos when it has been leading the way on many of the issues?

Agreement on a ‘roadmap’ for a post-Kyoto climate agreement gives carbon trading a longer perspective. How should institutional investors react?

Investors are already testing the potential of markets in greenhouse gas emissions, but what are the risks and how can they be avoided?

Isn’t it time pension funds asked their members about their morals?

A new breed of indices is being added to the established SRI benchmarks.

Sally Bridgeland, CEO of BT pension trustees explains how the oil and gas company is exploring SRI within the scheme.

Swedish pension fund AP7 says investors have a duty to follow international guidelines for responsible investment.

Investor allocations soar, but research is key to finding the sectors that will match future political decisions on climate change.

Corporate social responsibility is everywhere, but companies are failing to spot the potential for their pension funds.

CIO Alan Brown says fund managers will also come under pressure on their own internal environment policy.

A guide to selecting investment strategies and fund managers in this nascent asset class.

Why the technological revolution will clean up the planet and drive profits.
Can pension funds profit from increasingly aggressive hedge fund strategies?
Council gives Swedish state funds responsible investment muscle.
Corporates are doing well in carbon disclosure, so why are investors lagging?
Rob Lake, senior portfolio manager for environmental, social and governance at ABP, the €221bn ($311bn) pension fund for Dutch civil servants, talks clean tech, engagement and cluster bombs.

Michael Musuraca explains how the New York City Employees fund got active.

The subprime crisis shows the value of extra financial research.

David Russell, co-head of Responsible Investment at the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the £31bn (€46bn) second largest UK pension fund, explains how its SRI strategy is not just about risk but also reward.
3iG, the global interfaith movement, says it must do more than just exclude companies.
Fund will increase ‘renewables’ if €500m venture with ABP is successful.

Winning hearts and minds for sustainable prosperity.
Long-term investment performance is the firm’s mantra.

One of the world’s most prominent corporate governance activists since the 1970s, Bob Monks talks about engagement, hedge fund activists, private equity and why ‘discouraged’ is not part of his vocabulary.