Can a (billionaire) hedge fund manager fix income inequality?

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Ethical Markets welcomes this  initiative and the launch of JUST Capital on September 24th !  Hazel Henderson,Editor Famed investor Paul Tudor Jones believes that we’re headed for trouble if we don’t shrink the wealth gap. His solution? Pressure companies to be more just.  http://for.tn/1K4aVkD Can a (billionaire) hedge fund manager …

BP AGM Photo Opportunity: Shareholders Display Banner

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

BP AGM Photo Opportunity: Shareholders Display Banner   ShareAction is giving media advance notice of its plans to assemble individual shareholders outside BP’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday, April 16 at the ExCel Centre in East London.   ShareAction’s group of individual shareholders will be displaying a colourful banner with …

Reviving the small cap IPO market with Reg A Crowdfinanced Offerings

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Exclusive Invitation In December 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose rules updating the framework to the existing Regulation A offering. As mandated by Title IV of the JOBS Act, the SEC’s proposed rules would raise the Reg A offering threshold from $5 million to $50 million in …

Top 20 high-cost oil projects risk wasting $91 bln of investor cash

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Beyond GDP

PRESS RELEASE  UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 15 AUGUST, 00.01 BST  Top 20 high-cost oil projects risk wasting $91 bln of investor cash  London, August 15, 2014 – The Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) today revealed some of the world’s most expensive future oil projects, which the biggest publicly listed oil companies are considering for development. Some of these projects require prices far exceeding today’s levels, and risk wasting $91 billion of investor cash over the next decade if taken into …

RGS Energy: Troubling Inconsistencies

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

By Garvin Jabusch, cofounder and chief investment officer of Green Alpha® Advisors, LLC   RGS Energy: Troubling Inconsistencies Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:47 PM PDT Garvin Jabusch About three weeks ago, I posted a piece called “RGS Energy, Tempered, Opportunistic Growth,” an optimistic bit of coverage on one of our holdings,  (RGSE), …

Investors Urge FCC to Adopt Net Neutrality Rules, Reclassify Broadband Internet

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Global Citizen, Wealth of Networks

  For Immediate Release July 14, 2014 Investors Urge FCC to Adopt Net Neutrality Rules, Reclassify Broadband Internet Under Title II For immediate release July 14, 2014   NEW YORK – A group of investment firms and foundations with widely-diversified investment portfolios today called upon the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) …

AltEnergyStocks.com: RGS Energy: Troubling Inconsistencies

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  RGS Energy: Troubling Inconsistencies Posted: 08 Jul 2014 04:47 PM PDT Garvin Jabusch About three weeks ago, I posted a piece called “RGS Energy, Tempered, Opportunistic Growth,” an optimistic bit of coverage on one of our holdings,  (RGSE), that included an 18-month price target of $10.00 per share. Since …

UN Coalition of Leading Investors Outlines a New Corporate Governance Paradigm for Sustainability

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Ethical Markets welcomes this initiative!  Hazel Henderson, Editor Media Release     UN Coalition of Leading Investors Outlines a  New Corporate Governance Paradigm for Sustainability   Integrated Governance – A new model of governance for sustainability Geneva, 16 June 2014 – Integrated Governance – A new model of governance for sustainability, a …

Walden Asset Management eValues, Summer 2014: TIPPING POINTS

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

In This Issue: Tipping Points Shareholder Rights under Attack Partnerships at Work: BICEP Research & Engagement in Action Walden’s 2014 Shareholder Resolutions Estate Planners Eye State Requirements Cutting Edge Companies: Cyberonics  Download PDF version TIPPING POINTS Mad Men watchers surely flinched the first time the show’s protagonist, ad executive Don …

Duke Energy Directors Sued by Shareholders Over Coal Ash

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

Duke Energy Directors Sued by Shareholders Over Coal Ash By Sophia Pearson May 22, 2014 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-05-22/duke-energy-shareholders-sue-ove r-coal-ash-cleanup-oversight-1 Duke Energy Corp. (DUK:US) shareholders accused the board of exposing the company to billions of dollars in liability by failing to clean up coal-ash ponds in North Carolina, setting up another legal challenge …