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Social Responsibility Investing, Sustainable Investing, Green InvestingThere is a sizable and fast-growing number of "socially responsible" or "socially-minded" investors -- individual and institutional " that, according to the Social Investment Forum (SIF) now represents more than $2.3 trillion in corporate equity investments (estimated in 2003). That's roughly $1 in $9 invested in the stock market today in the United States. The Forum reported in 2005 that "social investing" grew at a faster rate than all other investing trends in 2005, with three primary styles being applied to portfolio management: (1) stock screening, (2) shareholder advocacy, and (3) community investing.
News & UpdatesMay 8, 2020 Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp. Files $300M SPAC
Source: SPAC Insider
Which, if you’re a little fuzzy on what “sustainability” is, or what it includes, it’s essentially companies with a strong ESG profile, or Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”), but specifically companies with existing... March 27, 2020 Budweiser redirects sport and entertainment spend into non-profits
Source: The Drum
Distiller Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser is joining its sports partners to help deal with the fallout from the coronavirus crisis by repurposing its plants and logistics network to produce hand sanitizer and utilise disused stadiums... March 11, 2020 Can Climate Sustainability Help Your Portfolio? Oh, Yes
Source: Forbes
Stock prices historically depend on future cash flows. But what if climate change endangers that stream? Odds are very strong, alas, that this could happen. And the results for investors will be ugly. Not to mention the results... Research & InsightsOctober 16, 2019 More large-scale investors are skittish about an ESG strategy at the expense of returns: survey
Source: MarketWatch
That is according to the Royal Bank of Canada’s RY, +0.53% fourth annual survey on responsible investing, which found that 18% of institutional investors globally said an environmental, social and governance strategy will... September 19, 2019 The World’s Most Reputable Companies For Corporate Responsibility 2019
Source: Forbes
Some of the world’s biggest businesses were in crisis management mode last year, picking up the pieces of reputations shattered by scandal. While many corporations have yet to regain the trust of stakeholders, others have made... May 16, 2019 FLASH REPORT: 86% of S&P 500 Index® Companies Publish Sustainability / Responsibility Reports in 2018
Source: Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc.
Highlights from Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. Research: “Sustainability reporting” rose dramatically from 2011, when roughly 20% of companies published reports, to 72% just three years later in 2013. From 2013 to...[more] Commentary & OpinionAugust 22, 2019 ESG/Sustainability: Getting On the Offense With Competitor Analysis
Source: Pamela J. Styles, Next Level Investor Relations
The rate of change across ESG/Sustainability is staggering. It’s tough for company boards and management teams to get ahead of the curve, especially for small and mid-cap companies. It has become effectively non-optional for... December 21, 2018 Invest With Your Conscience: 5 Great Socially Responsible Mutual Funds
Source: Earth911
Many of us are aware that how we spend our money impacts the world. In fact, consumer choices have even been called voting with our dollars. Just as spending money shapes the world around us, so does how we invest money. December 18, 2018 How Socially Responsible Investing Lost Its Soul
Source: Bloomberg L.P.
Take the $1.2 billion iShares MSCI KLD 400 Social ETF. It promises “exposure to socially ... Oppenheimer says the companies garner above-average ESG scores, based on third-party research that specializes in sustainability... |
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