A new series on Economic Impacts of Workers’ Capital:

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  October 9, 2014 Here’s your Heartland E-Journal Thursday Morning Espresso!  This morning we bring you a new series on Economic Impacts of Workers’ Capital: Economic Impact Investors’ Corner Workers’ capital is the retirement savings and pension funds invested in global capital markets to provide long-term financial returns to worker …

Broad group of public interest and labor organizations applaud the Dept. of Labor’s push to protect Americans’ retirement savings

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Financial Reform Newsletter September 24, 2014   Broad group of public interest and labor organizations applaud the Dept. of Labor’s push to protect Americans’ retirement savings: Millions of hardworking Americans who have spent years saving for retirement are receiving financial guidance from professional advisers who are not obligated to act in …

Broad group of public interest and labor organizations applaud the Dept. of Labor’s push to protect Americans’ retirement savings:

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Financial Reform Newsletter September 24, 2014   Broad group of public interest and labor organizations applaud the Dept. of Labor’s push to protect Americans’ retirement savings: Millions of hardworking Americans who have spent years saving for retirement are receiving financial guidance from professional advisers who are not obligated to act in …

MEDIA RELEASE: Time to re-engineer the UN Staff Pension Fund

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News, Beyond GDP

Ethical Markets has long advocated the UN Pension Fund take the lead by re-structuring its portfolio in line with its employees ‘ values ! I recall my meeting in 1998 at the UN H.Q. with John Ruggie and Georg Kell , arranged for me by my friend Maurice Strong .I …

Waters Calls on Hensarling to Protect Investors, Fund SEC Exams

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

For Immediate Release                                                                                                                                              July 11, 2014                                                                                                                                                                     Follow us on Twitter: @FSCDems                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Waters Calls on Hensarling to Protect Investors, Fund SEC Exams WASHINGTON, D.C. – Citing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) “abysmal” number of annual investment advisor examinations, the top …

BETTER MARKETS: Financial Reform Newsletter

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Financial Reform Newsletter July 10, 2014 As the media reports that more Wall Street settlements are coming, Better Markets continues to fight for accountability on Wall Street and at the Justice Department, urging a federal court to require DOJ to tell the American people what JPMorgan Chase did in …

(Free Webinar) Lowering Portfolio Risk: New Evidence Reveals Higher-Impact Porfolios Can Outperform Traditional Investing

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

      June 10th Webinar Lowering Risk, Enhancing Returns: How High Impact Portfolios Can Outperform Traditional Portfolios A diversified portfolio, driven by smart data and rated for future risk, can deliver stronger returns with lower risk and positive impact Overall, 80% of the S&P 500 stock market valuation is …

What a win-win on unburnable carbon looks like

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News

The recent IPCC report is clear: We need a dramatic change in the design of the global economy to avoid climate catastrophe and we need it now. The International Energy Agency estimates that to stay within 2 degrees Celsius of atmospheric warming, the global economy will have to avert emitting the carbon …

PRESS RELEASE – New pension fund trustee guide gives priority to long-term value

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Global Citizen

    PRESS RELEASE – 06 March 2014   New pension fund trustee guide gives priority to long-term value   Tomorrow’s Company calls for comply-and-explain to apply to pension fund trustee mandates   Tomorrow’s Company, the London based global business think tank is launching a guide for pension fund trustees to …

A Dangerous Game Of Us vs. Us Played With Our Life Savings : AltEnergyStocks.com

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  A Dangerous Game Of Us vs. Us Played With Our Life Savings Posted: 15 Mar 2014 07:22 AM PDT Tom Konrad CFA US law requires that money managers put their clients’ interests first. Investment advisers and money managers almost universally assume this means that they must try to make as …