Latest Special Reports – Page 126
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Where do we look for growth in the future?
In times characterised by uncertainty and conflict, people have placed increasing belief in socially responsible investment. This confidence has so far been rewarded. Can SRI provide an investment style adequate to the complexities of an increasingly global society? If so, where do we look in 2002 for sustainable growth? The ...
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BGI looks at SRI
Barclays Global Investors, one of the world’s largest investment managers, is considering introducing an SRI component into its management approach. Matthew Annable, CIO for active equity strategies in Europe, says the group is investigating whether there is a link between socially responsible companies and outperformance. As such it is in ...
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Dispelling the mysteries
‘For many beneficiaries and the public at large, pension funds are most mysterious organisations.” Whether or not you agree with this conclusion by an academic, it is certainly true that the structure and the running of pension plans has attracted low attention in the past, even by many insiders. However, ...
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A question of competency
“Capabilities are really high, skills and competencies are quite good.” This is the outcome of an independently commissioned survey by consultants Watson Wyatt into decision-making and pension fund governance in the UK. As Professor Andrew Kakabadse from the Cranfield School of Management, who led the research, told those attending a ...
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Exploiting the correlation
Compelling evidence is emerging that strong financial performance and sound financial management are increasingly linked. Much has been written over the past few years about the presence or absence of a relationship between the environmental and financial performance of companies. On balance, most evidence suggests that a positive relationship does ...
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Added impetus for SRI?
The UK government has announced in its response to the consultation on principles of operation for UK pension schemes proposed by Paul Myners that it will legislate to incorporate the US ERISA principles on shareholder activism into UK law. This would make it a duty for fund managers and pension ...
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Does institutional activism work?
The American Society of Corporate Secretaries has the motto ‘promoting excellence in corporate governance’. But this organisation has no monopoly on this laudable objective. You might well think these days that almost every other organisation in the investment industry has adopted this motto but have we gone too far. In ...
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SRI: not high on agenda
Rather like the road to hell, the road to outperformance appears to be paved with good intentions. If the experience of socially responsible investment (SRI) in the UK is anything to go by, though, then those intentions appear somewhat half-hearted. SRI in its purest form was the exclusion of offensive ...
