Human Rights Becoming Integral to Sustainable Finance
Following the 2008 global financial meltdown, financial experts have increasingly highlighted the need to incorporate sustainability, ethics and human rights into the financial system for long-term...
View ArticleLeading Conversation of CEOs on Identifying Market Drivers for Long-Term...
NEW YORK, February 29, 2016 /3BL Media/ – Fifty CEOs from the world’s largest companies convened at CECP’s 11th annual Board of Boards to discuss the theme Competing for the Long Run and how leading...
View ArticleInvestors Get Serious about ESG Factors
An action plan for ESG integration across the U.S. financial services sector has been released in a report by the Principles for Responsible Investment. The report is made up of legal opinions on...
View ArticleRegenerative Business Mentors Visit First Green Bank
In late January, as “The Year in the Life” project moved into its final months, we once again paid a visit to First Green Bank. This time we invited along two mentors who are leading thinkers and...
View ArticleInvestors Raising Heat on Fossil Fuel Companies and Their Strategies for...
March 7, 2016 /3BL Media/ – On the heels of a historic global climate agreement in Paris, investors have filed a record number of shareholder resolutions this year with major U.S. energy companies...
View ArticleSustainable Investing: From Bugs to Biodrying
An explosion of innovation is happening among the future leaders of sustainable finance. SOURCE: Morgan Stanley DESCRIPTION: The demand for sustainable investing has grown to the point where it vastly...
View ArticleLife in a Banking Desert
MetLife Foundation funds research that takes a deep dive into how low-income communities are becoming “banking deserts.” The project, known as “Mapping Financial Opportunity,” will provide a tool that...
View ArticleApple Issues $1.5B Green Bond to Spearhead Environmental Efforts
Corporate green bonds are a debt taken on by a company to finance environment-friendly projects. The green bond market is still in its infancy. According to Climate Bonds Initiative, the first...
View ArticleFive Exchange Traded Funds for Socially Responsible Investors – The Minute
An exchange-traded fund is a security that tracks an index, a commodity, bonds, or a basket of assets, like an index fund. ETFs trade like common stock on a stock exchange, which means they show...
View ArticleS&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM the First to Launch Indices
LONDON, NEW YORK, ZURICH, APRIL 19, 2016 /3BL Media/- S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), one of the world’s largest providers of financial market indices, and RobecoSAM, the investment...
View ArticleUBS Invests in Sustainability for Financial and Societal Return
Banking came into its own in the first industrial revolution. Banks were the intermediaries between the people with money and the ideas and opportunities of the community they served. Now, says UBS’s...
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The Disruption of Local Living, Investing and Cheese
(3BL Media and Just Means) – Peering through the window, San Francisco-based Mission Cheese looks like a cool cheese and wine bar, an intimate and hip place for a date or business meeting. Ask a few...
View ArticleTaking Stock of the PRI on Its Tenth Anniversary
In April the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiative marked ten years as the world’s leading proponent of responsible investing. Launched as collaboration between the United Nations...
View ArticleCenter for Financial Services Innovation Releases New Indicators for...
Ground-Breaking Tools Now Available to Financial Services Providers Chicago, Ill., May 10, 2016 /3BL Media/ – Today, the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) released a landmark report...
View ArticleRPI and ESG on the Up-and-Up
Responsible Property Investment (RPI) is an approach to property investing that incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors alongside conventional financial goals. RPI strategies...
View ArticleMichael Bloomberg Pushes Companies to Reveal Climate Risk
When former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in March that he would not be running for U.S. president, at least one person may have been quietly cheering: Bank of England governor Mark...
View ArticleInvestors Step Up Commitment to Animal Welfare
Animal welfare is an increasingly important CSR issue and it’s just moved even more to the center of the corporate conversation on the topic. 18 institutional investors, who represent £1.5 trillion in...
View ArticleSRI Becoming Key to Financial Advisors’ Success
Financial advisors who provide options for socially responsible investing are increasingly the choice of clients, according to a survey by TIAA Global Asset Management. The poll of 1,100 US investors...
View ArticleThe Regenerative Qualities of Bed-Stuy Fresh & Local
Sheila Akbar and Dylan Ricards opened the doors of Bed-Stuy Fresh & Local in December 2013 with an abundance of passion but no experience in the grocery business, responding to a need they...
View ArticleCEOs Urged to Talk ESG, Though Wall Street Wants EPS
CEOs need to ramp up communications about environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues even when Wall Street is more concerned with short-term financial performance like earnings per share (EPS),...
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