ESG Special Reports – Page 26
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Finance, not philanthropy
With more NGOs converting to banks in the developing world, the microfinance opportunities for pension funds are set to multiply. Rachel Fixsen reports
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Boosting the research environment
A serious chunk of commission is available to those investment banks that can put together quality research on a growing number of extra-financial issues, writes Sophia Grene
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Finding common ground
What constitutes social and ethical investing and as the area develops, is there any chance of harmonising the confusing array of terminology? Sophia Grene offers answers
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Best practice in Malaysia
Tan Lye Huat highlights the progress being made in applying new corporate governance guidelines in Malaysia
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How to avoid future minefields
The row over pension funds investing in companies that manufacture cluster bombs and landmines could perhaps have been avoided if the funds had used a new portfolio screening service. David White reports
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Factoring in fears of image risk
The cluster bomb controversy has transformed Dutch pension funds from paragons of virtue to robotic monsters without a conscience. Peter Kraneveld suggests how they can avoid such ‘image risk’in the future
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Seeing through pension fund investment
Few issues cause as much controversy as pension funds coming clean about the companies they invest in. Pension fund members may find themselves unwittingly supporting companies that manufacture controversial weapons, so it is argued that they should therefore be given information about how the assets on which their pension funds ...
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French civil servants lead the way on SRI
The ERAFP civil servants’ scheme is an innovative and unique scheme in the French second pillar. David White spoke to its director, Philippe Caïla
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When governance goes wrong
Why does the US struggle to get its corporate house in order, asks Mark Anson?
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Support for shareholder rights in the US
Europe’s four largest investors have joined forces for the first time to throw their weight behind an initiative for US shareholder rights. ABP Investments, Hermes Investment Management, Norges Bank Investment Management - the manager of Norway’s Government Pension Fund - and PGGM have made a submission to the US Securities ...
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Where governance can create or destroy value
Anthony Chan argues that institutional investment strategies are often mismatched with governance arrangements
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Platform aims to link big business with SRI
The people behind a new research platform, the European Centre for Corporate Engagement (ECCE), want the SRI community to benefit from closer involvement with large financial institutions. ECCE claims to be different from SRI research bodies already in existence due to its connections with big financial institutions, and the quantitative ...
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Steering a careful path between DB and DC
In his new book Keith Ambachtsheer advocates a pensions revolution based on sustainability and transparency, as Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports
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Italian reforms pave the way for SRI
Although the country is more or less in line with other European countries when it comes to SRI assets under management and around 20 SRI funds, in relative terms these assets present less than 1% of total assets under management, according to Davide dal Maso, head of Avanzi SRI’s research ...
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Reversing the blame culture
To turn the built environment green the property industry needs to learn how to work together, Liz Peace argues
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Building a green consensus
CalPERS pushed it with the weight of cash; regulators in the US and EU are now backing green building. But will nation states – and developers – go for it? Shayla Walmsley investigates
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Grasp the nettle
INREV sees a boost to the market coming from dynamic corporate governance. Managers must now make a leap of faith. Steve Hays reports
