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Viewpoint: Why Hasn’t Sustainable Investing Gone Viral Yet?
To begin and persevere a movement that effects real change, it needs not only leaders, but even more importantly, those first followers who can draw momentum to the movement to achieve critical mass.
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S&P is rolling out socially-minded index
S&P Dow Jones Indices will launch an environmental, social and governance version of its S&P 500 Index. The move’s an effort to meet increased investor demand for sustainable-investment vehicles based on U.S. equities.
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Major New UN Report Calls for Overhaul of Global Financial System
The report is a joint product of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, which is comprised of more than 60 United Nations Agencies and international organizations.
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Investing with equal pay in mind may be more difficult than you think
Investors who are concerned about equal pay may want to consider certain gender and diversity funds that are making this issue a priority.
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Viewpoint: Socially Responsible Investing Has A Politics Problem
As a topic up for public discussion, socially conscious investing comes with some political touchiness, mostly thanks to its inherent interconnection with the broader climate science debate.
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Report: Global Sustainable Investment Assets Grew by a Third in 2 Years
The U.S. was the second largest region based on its value of sustainable investing assets, which grew from $8.7 trillion in January 2016 to $12 trillion in January 2018, an increase of 38%. Assets managed under sustainable strategies made up more than a quarter of total professionally managed assets.
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Press release: New Guide from MMI and TIIP Helps Financial Advisors Integrate Sustainable Investment into Their Practices
The guide, entitled “Fundamentals of Sustainable Investment: A guide for financial advisors,” addresses pervasive industry myths about sustainable investing, disentangles the complicated web of vocabulary used to describe the approach, and provides practical recommendations on how to help clients reach their sustainable investing goals.
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Impact Investments Under Management Total $502 Billion
The broad market for sustainable investing practices, which includes investing in public companies with best practices against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics, was pegged at about US$12 trillion in 2018, according to the The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.To date, the only sense of the impact investing market’s size was the GIIN’s annual investor survey,
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