Bluefield Solar Eyes £150 Million IPO : AltEnergyStocks.com Bluefield Solar Eyes £150 Million IPO Posted: 31 May 2013 08:54 AM PDT Bluefield IPO to Be the Second Green Energy Fund Flotation in London This Year by Alice Young Bluefield Solar Income Fund Limited, an investment fund focussed on solar …
Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels : AltEnergyStocks.com
Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels : AltEnergyStocks.com Ten Economic Risks of Fossil Fuels Posted: 16 May 2013 07:19 AM PDT Garvin Jabusch A train, loaded with coal, crashed into the back of a passenger train in Czechloslovakia in 1868. Securities of fossil fuels firms, as an economic sector, may soon …
TheCrowdCafe weekly: Reigniting Alumni Engagement with Crowdfunding
TheCrowdCafe weekly • Issue #8 – May 12, 2013 • • Share on Twitter! • Happy Mother’s Day! 🙂 From the Cafe Reigniting Alumni Engagement with Crowdfunding Union Square Ventures is Cornering the Crowdfunding Market Selected Articles The SEC’s recent “no action” letters | Crowd Valley SEC’s White Said to Push for Lifting ban on …
Innovation is in urgent need of revival
The good folks from Occupy Wall Street/St Paul’s/the City have rightly drawn the world’s attention to many of the worst ills of contemporary capitalism, but they have not yet mentioned one which we consider to be equally pernicious: the financial system’s almost pathological abhorrence of innovation. All over the world, …
How Botched Derivatives Risk Taming Regulations are Again Going to Leave Taxpayers Holding the Bag
How Botched Derivatives Risk Taming Regulations are Again Going to Leave Taxpayers Holding the Bag Posted: 19 Oct 2012 02:16 AM PDT An important piece in the Financial Times by Manmohan Singh, a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund, describes persuasively how one of the central vehicles for reducing …
Financial Times covers Climate Bonds today
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/24ce91a8-fd97-11e1-8fc3-00144feabdc0.html#axzz26g9VxPAZ “If you have a choice between two bonds with the same yield, why would you not buy the one that helps to tackle climate change?” In today’s FTFM section. See the rest at http://climatebonds.net/2012/09/financial-times-covers-climate-bonds-today/
The Kay Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-term Decision Making
Click here to download the report (PDF) by John Kay for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, UK, July 2012 “Financial intermediation depends on trust and confidence: the trust and confidence that savers who invest funds have in those they choose to manage these funds, and the trust and …
Rio+20: negotiations falter amid deluge of corporate commitments
Rio+20: negotiations falter amid deluge of corporate commitments Businesses have announced a raft of commitments and unveiled numerous reports on sustainable development, as the Rio+20 negotiations enter their final phase. More >>> Sustainability reporting falling among large corporations Regulation is required to reverse a fall since 2008 in the percentage …
Opposite Day Blows Wind Tower Stocks Offshore : AltEnergyStocks.com
Posted: 16 Jun 2012 09:21 AM PDT Tom Konrad CFA Offshore Wind Farm photo via Bigstock Wind tower stocks having opposite day, or rather opposite week. When US-based wind power companies won a preliminary injunction to impose countervailing duties in a trade dispute against China, their stocks fell. They have …
New ball games
So has EU policy to diversify gas supplies through the “Southern Corridor” become a failure now that it’s clear that there will be no Nabucco pipeline running through Turkey? Nabucco, whose major shareholders are RWE of Germany and OMV of Austria, has long been seen as the flagship EU pipeline …