A Heart and Soul for Impact Investing: financial leaders gather to put capital to work.

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

A Heart and Soul for Impact Investing: financial leaders gather to put capital to work. Martha Shaw, EMM correspondent and president of Earth Advertising TBLI Conference, June 17-18, 2013 New York City (New York) – At the pulse of the socially responsible investing community are TBLI (Triple Bottom Line Investment) Conferences, which …

WWF: Do you care about a clean, healthy future for people and the planet?

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

  Do you care about a clean, healthy future for people and the planet? Our Pledge We believe our future can, and should, be powered by nature. The energy systems in place across the planet within the next four years will define the world’s climate change path for generations. All countries have a …

Post-2015 Development Agenda Bulletin – Vol. 208 No. 10 – High Level Meeting on Energy and the Post-2015 Development Agenda – Final Summary

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

Post-2015 Development Agenda Bulletin · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Volume 208 Number 10 – Thursday, 11 April 2013 SUMMARY OF THE HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON ENERGY AND THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA 9 APRIL …

Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Sylvia Wisniwski, Managing Director, Finance in Motion, Frankfurt am Main, Germany – April 5, 2013

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, The Power of Yin

Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.”  The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience.  The goals of Five Questions about SRI are fourfold: To collect a catalogue of examples of …

THE GO-TO RATING SERVICE FOR NONPROFIT DO-GOOD LOAN FUNDS

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, SRI/ESG News, Advisors' Forum

THE GO-TO RATING SERVICE FOR NONPROFIT DO-GOOD LOAN FUNDS The CARS rating service includes deep dive due diligence and analysis   By Ellie Winninghoff, award winning journalist and member of Ethical Markets Research Advisory Board   Local wind-farms that finance services for low-income people, microfinance for Indians, conservation easements that …

Carson Beadle joins EMM Advisory Board

Jay OwenAdvisors' Forum

For-Profit Organizations – Current ·         Chairman, Executive Committee, Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, plus Finance, corporate governance, marketing. ·         Member, Advisory Board, SelectMinds, Inc., NYC     Non-Profit – Current ·         Chairman, co-founder, The Health Project, White House supported C. Everett Koop National Health awards. ·         Elected …

A Tax That May Change the Trading Game

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

“As longtime advocates of financial transaction taxes since 1992, I and Ethical Markets is encouraged at this progress “ – Hazel Henderson, Editor A Tax That May Change the Trading Game   By FLOYD NORRIS Published: February 21, 2013 To the dismay of the United States government — not to mention Wall …

15th Edition of Emerging Markets ESG Database of Contacts in SRI

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

On Friday, December 28, 2012 Emerging Markets ESG published the 15th edition of its Updated Database of Contacts in the Field of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).   To download the database, please visit the research page of the Emerging Markets ESG internet portal.  Click Here to Visit  The Partners for Financial …

European asset owners: implementing more formal ESG practices to protect against long-term risks

Ethical MarketsSRI/ESG News

4 December 2012 – Novethic is releasing the results of its annual survey on the integration of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria by European asset owners, conducted with the support of BNP Paribas Investment Partners. Novethic surveyed 115 executives from the leading financial institutions in 11 countries, managing a …

“Calling Wall Street to Account”

Ethical MarketsReforming Global Finance, Advisors' Forum

by Alan F Kay, PhD, copyright 2012 In 1967, I started “AutEx” with a name that reflected the function of my Company.  Automation would go way beyond the functions of the financial industry wherein an Exchange was a place where floor traders went face-to-face to complete a transaction. Brokers, dealers, …