New fund provides a passively-managed investment option for international investors Recently Pax World Management LLC, investment adviser to Pax World Funds, announced the launch of the Pax MSCI International ESG Index Fund (PXINX), a passively-managed fund which seeks investment returns that closely correspond to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of
>> Back to May 2014 Issue Fund Outperforms Its Peers for 3-Year Period Calvert Investments recently announced that the Calvert Global Water Fund (CFWYX) received a 2014 Lipper Fund Award acknowledging consistent, strong, risk-adjusted performance relative to its peers. The Calvert Global Water Fund (Y shares) was named the best-performing fund among 105 funds
>> Back to May 2014 Issue Again for 2014, the Green Transition Scoreboard® (GTS) finds, with $5.3 trillion in private investments and commitments since 2007, the green economy is on track to reach $10 trillion in investments by 2020 to effectively scale innovations and reduce costs in green technologies as the world transitions to
Back to May 2014 Issue By Ian Doyle, co-author of Healing Capitalism I’ve just come home from lunch with a friend of mine who is part of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) research team. He confirmed so much of what my co-author, Jem Bendell, and I believe is happening, or rather not
By Lisa Woll, CEO of US SIF Back to May 2014 Issue At the US SIF Fourth Annual Conference from May 19-21 in Washington, DC, our agenda will include topics ranging from millennial investing, food security and climate change, income inequality, portfolio performance, company sustainability practices, community investing, global trends, pension funds and ESG,
By Katherine Collins, Author, The Nature of Investing and Founder, Honeybee Capital In Green Money circles, we spend a lot of time considering ways to invest in nature, or sometimes with nature. These are big and important questions: more complete understanding of the value of nature is certainly a vital component of any sustainable
from TED @ StateStreet (November 2013) [adrotate group=”7″] Sustainability is pretty clearly one of the world\’s most important goals; but what groups can really make environmental progress in leaps and bounds? Chris McKnett makes the case that it\’s large institutional investors. He shows how strong financial data isn\’t enough, and reveals why investors need
>> Back to March 2014 Issue Team Members cite commitment to health and professional growth opportunities as reasons for being a great place to work Thanks to responses by Whole Foods Market Team Members, FORTUNE magazine ranked the grocer on its “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for the 17th consecutive year. The
>> Back to March 2014 Issue Investing in our Future – Divest from Fossil Fuels Now By Fran Teplitz, Social Investing Director, Green America It’s time to stop this madness.” So said Yeb Sano, the Philippines’ lead negotiator at the UN Climate Summit in Warsaw, one week after the strongest typhoon ever to make
>> Back to March 2014 Issue Report documents current trends in sustainable investing among foundations, provides practical resources Earlier this year the US SIF Foundation released “Unleashing the Potential of US Foundation Endowments: Using Responsible Investment to Strengthen Endowment Oversight and Enhance Impact.” Download here- http://www.ussif.org/files/Publications/unleashing_potential.pdf The report, using extensive data from primary and
