In the News

Sustainable Investing:

The People's Trust plants a flag for long term sustainable investing
Proactive Investors UK
The People's Trust, which encourages its fund managers to take a seven year view with their investments will list in London on 17 October.
 
UK sustainable investment firm to acquire New Hampshire-based Pax
New Hampshire Business Review
Pax World Management, the Portsmouth-based firm that essentially created the sustainable investment industry, has agreed to be acquired by Impax ...

On Demand Webcast: The Rise of ESG ETFs
ETF Trends
As of 2016, the market size of sustainable, responsible and impact investing in the U.S. was $8.72 trillion or one-fifth of all investment under ...

Global Reporting Initiative: 

GUESS Announces Release of Second Sustainability Report
Markets Insider
GUESS's approach is aligned with the principles established by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to determine topics that are important to both our ...
 
Clorox Releases 2017 Integrated Annual Report
Markets Insider
"This report shows how our stakeholders serve as the inspiration for ... In preparing this report, Clorox followed the Global Reporting Initiative G4 ...
 
Activation & Acceleration: Catalyzing Context-Driven Stakeholders
Sustainable Brands
While it's surprising it took so long for this trend to gain steam – a decade-and-a-half since the Global Reporting Initiative introduced the Principle in ...

Renewable Energy Investments:

France to invest 7 billion euros in renewable energy plan: government document
Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government plans to invest 7 billion euros ($8.31 billion) to boost the growth of French renewable energies by 70 ...
 
Brazil's renewable energy potential attracts investors
Financial Times
In João Camara, a remote area in Brazil's north-east, the car in which I am a passenger drives beneath a great row of wind turbines in João Camara, ...

3 High-Yield Renewable Energy Stocks
Motley Fool
Many companies are choosing to return a significant portion of those renewable cash flow streams to investors, which are powering big-time dividends ...

CDP Sustainability:

Water Risk Addressed Not-So-Well by Meat, Ag Industries, Report Shows
Environmental Leader
Using publicly available data from sources like 10-K filings, sustainability reports and the CDP Global Water Report, Feeding Ourselves Thirsty scored ...

Is Reporting on Risk Tougher than Reporting on Success?
Environmental Leader
Just this week, a report from Accenture, CDP and Hermes Investment ... than quantifying sustainability measures that have already produced results.

Impact Investing:

Seven Lessons From A Decade Of Impact Investing
Ecosystem Marketplace
Impact investors have funneled more than $100 billion into projects designed to make money by doing good, and $8 billion of that flowed into projects ...
 
Generational Musings on Impact Investing: Are They Worth the Paper?
Nonprofit Quarterly (registration)
Last week, Fast Company wrote that as millennials inherit wealth, their participation in impact investing might significantly increase, maybe. The article ...
 
Magdy Martínez-Solimán: Realizing Agenda 2030: How Islamic Finance Through Impact Investing ...
UNDP
I am very pleased to join this event on how to tap the resource and innovation potential of Islamic finance and impact investing for achieving the ...

Resource Conservation Investments:

Bhakti Closes Series B Investment
BevNET.com
This investment will fuel packaging innovation, accelerate nationwide distribution into ... Targeting investments in the areas of community health, natural resource conservation, education and workforce development and economic ...

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Announces More Than $12.6 Million in Grants from the ...
GlobeNewswire (press release)
... the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, ... the Altria Group Restoring America's Resources partnership and CSX. ... “These investments demonstrate that the actions necessary to restore local ...

Socially Responsible Investing:

Santa Barbara City Council Passes 'Socially Responsible' Investment Policy
Noozhawk
The council also voted to support a so-called socially responsible investment policy that discourages investment in entities that manufacture, distribute ...
 
The Church Pension Fund Releases Socially Responsible Investing Video Highlighting Affordable ...
Business Wire (press release)
The Church Pension Fund (CPF), a financial services organization that serves the Episcopal Church, released a video highlighting an investment to ...
 
LISTEN: Why It Makes Sense For Companies To Be Socially Responsible
Fast Company
You can listen to my entire interview with Figge here, as well as Megan Kamerick reporting on the growth of socially responsible investing, and Dorian ...

Funds for Sustainable Investing:

Socially responsible investing means clearing a few hurdles
USA TODAY
A growing number of investors want their investments to align with their ... There are more SRI choices for investors — about 1,000 mutual funds and ...

Green Fund Firm Impax Snaps Up US Rival Pax
Institutional Investor
“Like Impax, Pax has a long track record as a pioneer in sustainable investing and a strong team,” Simm said in the statement, adding, “The combined ...
Impax Asset Management acquires Pax to expand its sustainable investment strategy - City A.M.
Impax Asset Management Acquires Rival Pax World Management - WealthManagement.com
Impax Asset Management to acquire Pax World - InvestmentNews

UK sustainable investment firm to acquire New Hampshire-based Pax
New Hampshire Business Review
Pax, founded in 1971 with an initial $100,000 investment is a pioneer of sustainable investing. Since then, it has grown into a family of funds that ...
Pax World Management to be acquired by Impax - Seacoastonline.com
Impax to acquire Pax World Management - Pensions & Investments 

Sustainability Investing:   

APG and E Fund launch first China-focused sustainable investing strategy
Asia Asset Management
It's the first concentrated equities strategy that will invest in China A-shares and adhere to sustainable and RI frameworks and criteria, E Fund says in a ...
 
So, let's talk green: Silver lining of the dark storm clouds
Deccan Chronicle
This is detailed in the second edition of the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing Investor Survey, Sustainable Signals. It surveyed 1,000 ...

Philanthropic Investing:

What Is Philanthropic Investing?
HuffPost
At Omidyar Network, being a philanthropic investment firm means that we are able to deploy capital to both for-profit and non-profit entities that have a ...
 
JPMorgan Chase to invest $40 million in Chicago's South and West sides
Chicago Tribune
It amounts to a 50 percent increase in JPMorgan Chase's philanthropic contributions in Chicago. The bank typically has invested $8 million to $9 ...
JPMorgan Chase Is Investing $40 Million In Chicago's Struggling Neighborhoods - Fortune
 
JPMorgan Chase Invest $40 Million To Create Economic Growth on Chicago's South and Westsides
Chicago Defender
JPMorgan Chase makes about $250 million in annual philanthropic investments to create opportunity across the U.S. and in 40 countries around the ...

Green Bond Funds:

India's Largest Bank To Raise $3 Billion Through Green Bonds
CleanTechnica
India's Largest Bank To Raise $3 Billion Through Green Bonds ... Funds raised through the bond issue will be used to refinance debt raised in 2014 as ...
 
Climate Bonds Initiative in talks over 'Green Bond Connect'
Nasdaq
Climate Bonds Initiative in talks over 'Green Bond Connect' ... Bank sold SKr2.325bn (US$289m) of notes to a group of Scandinavian pension funds.

Green Cat Bonds Aren't a Thing – Yet
Insurance Journal
To become a “green bond,” a bond must be certified by certain ... An argument can be made that if the funds from a cat bond are triggered and used to ...

Low Carbon Funds: 

Green funds offer opportunities in transition to low-carbon economy
Independent.ie
Large pension funds seek greater exposure to stocks that can positively transition to a low-carbon economy - while avoiding stocks with 'climate risks' ...

Ontario Announces $25.8 Million In Funding Available For Low Carbon Innovations
The National Law Review
The Technology Validation stream, which aims to fund proof-of-concept or prototype projects from eligible Ontario companies or academic ...
 
Policy uncertainty is blocking investment in low carbon assets
RenewEconomy
Australian institutional investors have a strong appetite for low carbon ... This included superannuation funds, asset managers and sovereign wealth ...