All Special Report articles – Page 115
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Microfinance enters the mainstream
Over the years, microfinance has emerged as a profitable business opportunity and a way to build local economies. When Dutch pension giant ABP, the scheme for civil servants, placed €5m in the Dexia Micro-Credit fund last year it was a sign of growing interest in this type of investment among ...
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Skilled delegates the way to ensure democracy
Paid pension fund staff clearly need thorough training in the business area relevant to their role. But the decision-making process at a fund involves many others. In Denmark, more pension funds are taking a serious look at the skills of their delegates elected by members, says Claus Skadhauge, head of ...
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Investing in Africa
Despite growing interest for emerging markets, pension funds are still hesitant about them. Peter Hinton, managing director of Enterprise Banking Group in Botswana, says that funds were not yet heavily investing in African emerging markets due to the problem of finding the right investment vehicles or entities for their investment ...
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Money with a conscience
Robert Rubenstein finds bodies with a social mission reluctant to commit their endowments to social investments
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What the smart CEO needs to know
CEOs and other corporate leaders often lack direct knowledge and experience in managing social responsibility challenges. How can they maintain their focus on value creation while minimising the potential disruptions to their business from these increasingly powerful external forces? There are five essential issues that CEOs should focus on to ...
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Towards a better understanding
Yasuteru Aizawa of the CSR lobby group IPERI describes his aspirations changing attitudes towards the environment in the boardrooms of across Japan
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The comfort factor
INREV’s Alisdair Evans examines how corporate governance in unlisted funds for real estate investing can be significantly improved upon
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UN leads from the front
Over the past year the United Nations has been working with financial institutions to establish a common ethical framework, as Stephanie Schwartz-Driver discovers
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Part of what they believe in
While more funds are taking SRI/ESG on board, each follows their own approach. Rachel Fixsen investigates how they implement their guidelines
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Articles of faith
Faith groups are coming together on SRI issues and collectively can command substantial assets. But how much do they really have in common, asks Shayla Walmsley
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More than just a lot of hot air
As the world grows steadily more sensitive to climate change and harmful gas production, emissions trading is attracting more investment says Nina Roehrbein
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Traditional researchers join in
Thanks to regulations, climate change, carbon emissions and supply chain issues, brokers are more proactive in gathering SRI intelligence, says Lynn Strongin Dodds
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Not just a matter of fashion
Lynn Strongin Dodds talks to some industry executives to discover who is investing in SRI and and what companies are attracting their money
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Investing for a cleaner planet
Stephanie Schwartz-Driver discovers how exchange traded funds offer socially responsible investment, developed by a number of US innovators
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The emerging market traders
Lynn Strongin Dodds reports on how emerging markets entering the world’s stock exchanges are encouraging companies to clean up their act
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The perils of divestment
Pension funds in Europe have always sought to screen out irresponsible businesses, says Shayla Walmsley, but drawing the line has never easy and double standards abound
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Dedicated to SRI - profits or not
IPE asked three pension funds – in Belgium, Denmark and Austria – the same question: ‘Do you do SRI and if so how and does it give a good return?’ Here are their answers:
