Posts Tagged ‘ESG’

Keeping the SRI in ESG

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Big changes are underway in the world of socially responsible investing (SRI). In just the past five or so years, mainstream Wall Street has reversed course from its longstanding claim that SRI can only hurt financial returns, to embrace the idea that environmental and social issues can have a direct impact on financial performance.  
The Wall Street shops [...]

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What Goes Up Doesn’t Always Go Up

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

The latest disaster in the financial markets has once again shown that some of the biggest risks investors face derive from the excesses of free markets themselves.  This time it was unregulated lending, leverage and speculation.  In 2000 it was over-optimistic and at times corrupt Wall Street analysts, gobbling up creative corporate accounting that massaged [...]

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