A new study by Sustainalytics highlights links between sustainability performance and shareholder value. The report, Sustainability and Materiality in the Natural Resources Sector looked at environmental and social practices in the forestry, mining and oil and gas sectors and found […]
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SAM, the investment boutique focused exclusively on sustainability investing, and Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the creation of the Dow Jones SustainabilityWorld Enlarged Index (DJSI World Enlarged). The new index will be launched on November […]
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Today SustainAbility releases phase two in our four-part research initiative Rate the Raters. For phase two we inventoried over 100 sustainability ratings and their attributes, and surveyed over 1000 sustainability professionals on their perceptions of ratings. The analysis identified a […]
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(Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced it is offering a comprehensive family of indexes designed to track the green economy. Leading the launch is the all-inclusive NASDAQ OMX Green Economy Index (Nasdaq:QGREEN), which is designed to serve investors who wish to benchmark an […]
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Thomson Reuters and UKSIF, the sustainable investment and finance association, announced the results of the eighth annual Thomson Reuters Extel/UKSIF Socially Responsible Investing & Sustainability Survey at an event held at the FTSE Group Headquarters in Canary Wharf, London. The […]
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Social lender Triodos Bank has closed its £3m social investment fund and will return the money to its investors after making only one investment in two years. The bank said the fund, known as the Triodos Opportunities Fund, had been […]
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Figures released today by EIRIS, the London based non-profit responsible investment research specialists, show that as at 31st December 2009 the amount of money invested in Britain’s green and ethical retail funds (i.e. those funds open to the general public) […]
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In 2009, a year when financial institutions encountered difficult market conditions, Oikocredit – one of the world’s largest private financiers of the microfinance sector – achieved record high inflows. Oikocredits capital inflow reached 62.9 million and its total assets […]
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The global banking crisis, coupled with an increased awareness of issues such as climate change, has seen a surge in money being poured into ethical funds in the past few months. The Investment Management Association reckons investors put £62.2m into […]
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A study of mutual funds managed by members of the Social Investment Forum finds that two-thirds outperformed their benchmarks across nearly all asset classes in 2009, and most large cap funds outperformed the S&P 500 over three and 10 years.
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NIBC European Infrastructure Fund and Triodos Banks Ampere Equity Fund have just before year-end reached final agreement with the Spanish construction group Grupo Aldesa to acquire a 46MW solar portfolio consisting of 9 solar sites in Andalucia, Spain. The portfolio […]
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Green, social and ethical funds in Europe have grown considerably in number and size over the past year, in spite of the fallout from the financial crisis. Assets under management rose by 9 per cent a year to 53bn (£47bn, […]
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