Michelle Mosser

Beyond Socially Conscious Investing: How integrated reporting is helping sustainability go mainstream

  By Dr. Peter Graf, Chief Sustainability Officer and Executive Vice President, SAP AG and Dr. Christoph Huetten, Chief Accounting Officer and Sr. Vice President, SAP AG When SAP first began talking about the importance of sustainability to our business, some people – even inside our own company – were confused. What does SAP, one […]

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Off-the-Grid Investing: Perspectives and Voices of a Transforming Financial System

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue By Don Shaffer, RSF Social Finance   RSF Off-the-Grid When you are looking for the new or emergent, you usually have to look off-the-grid. In many ways as RSF Social Finance has grown, we too have had to go off-the-grid to develop our unique approach to finance. In 1984,

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The Green Bonds Impact – How Praxis Mutual Funds is helping change the climate of fixed income

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue   By Madalyn Metzger, Everence Financial and Praxis Mutual Funds The goal of most investors is to achieve a positive return – with success typically measured in annualized percentages. And while this is an important measure, a growing number of investors are looking for more. Specifically, they’re looking for

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Unique Investment Options: Parnassus Workplace Fund and Parnassus Asia Fund

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue by Jerome Dodson, Parnassus Investments Recently Cliff Feigenbaum, managing editor of the GreenMoney Journal, asked me to write about Parnassus Investments, so I decided to write about two of our funds: the Parnassus Workplace Fund and the new Parnassus Asia Fund. Parnassus Workplace Fund A good place to work

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Publishers Note: Integrating Sustainability

>> Back to Fall 2013 Issue   Before I begin, here is some big news: GreenMoney’s e-Journal, like this one, is going monthly in January, featuring a new and improved design. More details below. Now on to this issue… We chose “Integrating Sustainability” as this issue\’s theme to reflect the growing desire of people to

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GreenMoney Interviews: Hazel Henderson interviewed by GreenMoney’s founder Cliff Feigenbaum

Back to Fall 2013 Issue   Introduction Welcome to the latest “GreenMoney Interviews.” For this issue I spoke with Dr. Hazel Henderson, a true icon and visionary in the world of corporate responsibility and ethical economies. Dr. Henderson is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, as well as a consultant on sustainable

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Demand Grows for Responsible, Sustainable Investment

  New Article and Data from Mercer Recent storms, droughts, industrial accidents, and scandals have raised the profile of sustainability and responsibility issues among media, corporations, and a broad range of investors, including pension plans, endowments, and foundations. In response, institutional investors across segments are seeking out new products that take advantage of sustainability themes

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The New Book: – Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

  By Mark Tercek and Jonathan Adams, authors The conservation movement has made great strides in recent decades. Governments have improved regulations, consumers love to buy “green,” and the largest corporations in the world have enacted broad sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility strategies. Yet despite these efforts, nearly every precious bit of nature is in

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Parnassus Investments launches the Parnassus Asia Fund

  Parnassus Investments announces the launch of a new international equity strategy focusing on the Pacific-Asia region on May 1, 2013. The Parnassus Asia Fund (PAFSX) aims to provide investors with unique responsible investment options for capital appreciation through stocks of companies located in Asia. This includes Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea,

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