The Next Big Thing in Crowdfunding

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser   The Next Big Thing in Crowdfunding   TSL Publications   ARTICLES   Crowdfunding: A Tectonic Shift in Real Estate Investing (NuWire Investor)   With the democratization of financing via different means, most prominent would be the US Jumpstart Our Business …

WHEB invests in Mcor Technologies Ltd.

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Nature/Biomimicry

London and Munich, 2 June 2014   WHEB Partners, the London and Munich based private equity fund manager, has invested €6.6m of growth capital in Mcor Technologies Ltd (Mcor). Mcor provides the world’s most affordable, full-colour and eco-friendly 3D printers. The company is based in Dunleer, Ireland. While most 3D …

James Robertson Newsletter: Growing Support For Monetary Reform

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

James Robertson Newsletter No. 47 – May 2014 The full Newsletter can also be viewed at www.jamesrobertson.com/newsletter.htm.    CONTENTS Editorial 1. Growing Support For Monetary Reform 2. A Possible Tipping Point From Scotland 3. Growing Inequality – Thomas Piketty’s Book 4. Practical Achievement And Far-Sighted Analysis 5. Liberation Of Work, …

IASB, average premiums, UK select committee, DNB, smart beta, PFA, Norway, SpenceJohnson

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

TODAY’S TOP STORIES IASB mounts charm offensive to address concerns of UK investors Accounting board expresses sympathy for concerns voiced over use of prudence under revised conceptual framework Ditching average Dutch premium selfish and short-sighted, says legal expert UK pension reforms motivated by tax, alleges influential committee chair European institutions …

New facts about employee ownership in May 2014

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

                                           EFES NEWSLETTER – MAY 2014 Transparency It is usually considered in large European companies that employee share ownership has to be developed, leading to better performances and better governance. …

FTSE Group Develops Fossil Fuel Excluding Index , Ethical Performance,May 2

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Ethical Performance Email Alert – If you cannot view this email click here This week in CSR & sustainability… FTSE Group develops fossil fuel excluding index The FTSE Group claims that the move is ground-breaking and will pave the way to implementation of a total exclusion model for fossil fuel-linked …

UNEP FI Newsletter / March – April 2014 – Climate Science

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

   Members | Publications | Events | Training | About It is a delight to write this newsletter after two months in the role as Director and with the benefit of early insight into the workings of UNEP FI, the broader UNEP and UN environment, and with the extremely useful direct feedback from our …

Financial Times: Strip private banks of their power to create money

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Ethical Markets fully supports Positive Money .  Congratulations on this breakthrough into mainstream media – Hazel Henderson, Editor Another major breakthrough in the monetary reform debate!   Fantastic news: The debate on money reform goes mainstream! Last week has the leading UK economics commentator, the Financial Times’ Martin Wolf, argued that “the …

Review Of “Nature Of Investing” And “World We Made”

Jay OwenBooks and Reviews, Articles by Hazel Henderson

Summary Review of Katherine Collins’ newly released “The Nature of Investing”. Review of Jonathon Porritt’s “The World We Made”. Correcting current investing methods to methods based on nature for the benefit of future generations. THE NATURE OF INVESTING by Katherine Collins, Bibliomotion, Inc., Brookline, MA, 2014 THE WORLD WE MADE …

Dutch FTK, Denmark, Bank of England, Finland, IORP II, Armenia, KID

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

TODAY’S TOP STORIES Revised FTK will provide ‘clear rules’ on indexation, reduce contribution volatility Revised framework criticised by industry for offering insufficient improvement on prior drafts, resembling nominal contract Danish government considers launch of pensions commission UK central bank weighs in on asset manager systemic risk debate German pension association …