Browse by subject: Finance: Socially responsible investment (79)
Will SRI last a downturn?
04 Nov 2006
It was one of the key unanswered questions, at what is probably Europe’s leading socially responsible investment...
When stakeholders get picky...
11 Nov 2006
Getting customers involved in banking policy can be tricky, but rewarding - Co-op Bank
Victorian values for money?
12 Nov 2006
The Company Law review is both timid and toothless - The Co-operative Bank
Up to £347 billion in untapped rural potential, says CRC
14 Jan 2010
A new, holistic model of investment could help rural areas reap the fruits of a green economic revival, says the...
UNEP backs renewables investment
05 Oct 2006
Energy security and climate change - the world’s two most pressing issues - won’t be solved by the mindset...
UK insurance and the global environment
05 Nov 2006
When people’s savings are separated from their ethical values, this clearly plays an immense role in environmental destruction...
Turning the worm
06 Mar 2008
It's not just Enron style corruption that destabilises our financial system - the system itself needs redesigning,...
Translators and tailors needed!
12 Nov 2006
How to strengthen socially-responsible investment - Hendersons
Tasty money
27 Mar 2008
Why do ethical consumers have a blind spot when it comes to choosing a bank? If you care about the environment, you...
Taking 'a heck of a hit'
05 Nov 2006
Automotive companies are hardly on top of a Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) analyst's watch list, but the sector...
Sustainability and company pensions
05 Nov 2006
From July this year, company pension fund trustees must disclose what ethical considerations they apply to investments,...
Stock response to global trends
04 Nov 2006
Environmental issues were always likely to fade from the public mind with the passing of last autumn's Jo'burg summit...
SRI: a tenth birthday, and time to graduate
04 Nov 2006
The forthcoming tenth anniversary of the UK Social Investment Forum marks the beginning of a new phase for Socially...
SRI dawns on Japanese investors
05 Oct 2006
Japan now has its first clear benchmark for socially responsible investment (SRI), aimed at investors concerned to...
SRI and the challenge of global responsibility
04 Nov 2006
There is an increasing perception that nation states lack the power, the competence, the flexibility or the rapid...
Spreading the bet
12 Nov 2006
Gareth Llewellyn asks if corporate governance is the company's friend? - Entec UK
South Africa must shoot for green goals at 2010 World Cup
18 Dec 2009
The 2010 World Cup is kicking off some positive initiatives, says Sheryl Ozinsky, but the host nation could be wide...
Socially Responsible Auntie
11 Nov 2006
The BBC wants to be "the leading non-plc organisation on corporate social responsibility by 2005". Its community...
Soapboxing
02 Nov 2006
Why weren’t ethical investors clamouring for Laura Merrill’s Child Trust Fund cheque?
So where’s the ethics.com?
10 Nov 2006
They're young, they're cool - but can they care? James Wilsdon throws out a challenge to the digerati.
Small change, big difference
09 Oct 2007
City investors bank on the world’s ‘unbankable’
$108 million was raised in a Morgan Stanley bond –...
Shrink the economy to stabilise the climate, says Andrew Simms
17 Feb 2010
Slavish devotion to growth is charting a course for catastrophe. Andrew Simms, policy director of nef, looks at...
Shell out for big renewable stake
11 Nov 2006
Investment in renewables is set for a big boost at Shell. The Anglo-Dutch energy giant plans “to invest $0...
Shared purpose in social investment
06 Nov 2006
Looking for an ethical investment in London with a strong social welfare dimension? The London Rebuilding Society...
Risky exposure to biodiversity
04 Nov 2006
One of the UK’s largest fund managers, responsible for handling over £67 billion in assets, has asked...
Risks, ethics and business in Burma
12 Nov 2006
Business involvement in countries under the spotlight of human rights concern has become one of the key issues in...
Putting money behind renewables
06 Nov 2006
Can venture capitalists help develop the renewable energy sector? Dr Even Bakke, the director of venture capital...
Private Finance, Public Promise
12 Dec 2007
The jury’s out on PFI as a path to green building, argues Ben Tuxworth.
More 4Good at FTSE
11 Nov 2006
The value of socially responsible investment (SRI) has grown by a remarkable 1000% in the last four years. This was...
Monks, crusaders, merchants and pioneers
05 Nov 2006
A Responsible Investment? is an interesting analysis of the evolution, current practices and status of SRI around the world...
Merging into the mainstream
04 Nov 2006
Specialist independent financial adviser (IFA) Holden Meehan will be going for rapid growth in its new incarnation...
Mergers, money & morals
12 Nov 2006
Money and morality in the age of the mega-merger - Henderson Investors
Just risks on pensions
05 Oct 2006
Pension fund trustees are getting more detailed information and guidance on the kind of social, ethical and environmental...
Investors choke on fast food
30 Jan 2008
US ethical funds are turning their sights on fast food companies. With McDonald’s under fire for its contribution...
Into the red – out with the green?
05 Sep 2008
Will recession force environmental issues down the agenda – or could it be an unlikely spur to more sustainable...
Insurers kicked on ethics
05 Nov 2006
Although some of the world’s leading insurance companies have begun to recognise how much is at risk from environmentally...
Ins and outs of FTSE4Good
04 Nov 2006
Pushing the socially responsible investment boat further out into the mainstream of the financial world, the recent...
Ikea DIYs it
14 Oct 2008
Ikea invests €50 million in cleantech start-ups
The new investment arm, Ikea GreenTech,...
Greening the greenbacks
09 Oct 2007
Banks launch billion dollar initiatives
International
mega-bank HSBC is spending $100 million on a scheme...
Google invests in clean energy
12 Jul 2010
A significant investment in clean energy by Google suggests it sees the renewable market as a key plank in its emerging...
From the classroom to the markets
08 Nov 2006
Investors should be putting their money on education - Holden Meehan
From snake bites to solar lights: Sam Goldman is CEO, D.light
06 Aug 2010
It started with a scary night in an African hut. Now it's a multi-million dollar business bringing solar electricity...
Free advice for a fairer world
04 Nov 2006
Pension fund trustees and fund managers are being offered a growing body of advice and assistance on implementing...
Faith in the City
06 Mar 2008
Roger East gets the word from Brian Pearce on the scope for promoting sustainable finance under the London Principles...
Ethics and financial value
04 Nov 2006
Research by Business in the Environment (BiE) into City attitudes to environmental and social issues has come up...
Ethical investing goes critical
05 Nov 2006
The new stance of one major pension fund has transformed the UK ethical investing landscape, dramatically increasing...
Downturn spurs on green agenda
21 May 2009
Governments around the world have been spurred on by the downturn to do more, not less, to combat climate change...
Doing property properly
21 Dec 2007
Investment fund to boost green offices
A sustainable property investment fund due to hit the market next...
Daniels in the lions den
09 Nov 2006
A growing trickle of high-profile environmentalists are taking jobs in the City. They tell Roger Cowe why they're not selling out...
Climate signals come to market
04 Nov 2006
Reflecting the embryonic interest in climate change in the City, the day after the positive news from Bonn on the...
City flickers
10 Nov 2006
Why London's financial institutions are flirting with sustainability, by Roger Cowe
Choice: the curse of the green consumer?
29 Nov 2007
Ethical shopping is booming as never before, but Andrew Purvis thinks it’s time for niche to go mainstream.
Business boost for green energy
05 Nov 2006
Flexing their combined muscle to encourage the producers of alternative energy, a dozen major US companies have just...
BP in the spotlight again
11 Nov 2006
As it was last year, BP’s 2002 annual general meeting (imminent as this issue of Green Futures goes to press)...
Boosting the trend to SRI
05 Nov 2006
The great majority of the UK’s large pension funds – 21 out of the top 25, according to research by consultants...
Americans drive long-term growth of sustainability index
05 Nov 2006
The Sustainability Group Index (DJSGI) developed by Dow Jones last year shows interesting comparisons with overall...
All those in favour
05 Nov 2006
Now that pension schemes are required by law to state whether they have an ethical policy, how strong is the demand...
