Sustainable development and finance

Sustainable development becomes a reality for the world of finance.

Indeed, a growing amount of money is invested in environmental funds. For example, in Europe according to Watson Wyatt, a investment consultants, 15.2 % of net investments in equity funds were invested into environmental funds during the first seven months of 2007, against 2.6 per [...]

Responsible Investors … You can do it !

The Rockefeller Foundation studied the opportunities to create a social stock Exchange located in United Kingdom . The ethical investors ‘ll can  trade with companies socially responsible. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9a7da70c-f79f-11dc-ac40-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
 
This initiative is a way to promote sustainable development to the investors and implies them to the social responsibility of the company in order to protect the environment, [...]

Vigeo Group | CSR Audit (in FRA)

–WOW– to be honest, I am not sure we have firms like this in Canada, but the Vigeo Group are, in essence, THE Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) police in France.
Vigeo examined ~ 1,500 European, American and Asian companies with regards to:

Human Rights
Human Resources
Environment
Business Behaviour
Corporate Governance
Community Involvment

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Offering services similar to that of [...]

Socially Responsible Investment

As I am currently following a financial training, and because I’m also really interested in Shares Portfolio Management, I wanted to focus on the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).
As you may know, ethic and social responsibility are newly popular trends and have recently reached the investment process. On one hand, you have the people’s will to [...]

Marketing for or through SD?

Along with the growing alertness for the environment, sustainable development (SD) has become a popular term in the business world, so popular that it even exists in the form of mutual funds. One might think it is actually a good thing as you can get two birds with one stone (prospect earnings along with good [...]