April 2016 – Women & Investing: Changing the World

Inaugural Universe Includes Apple, Cisco, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Nike, Walmart, and other Tech, Finance, and Consumer Product Leaders Clean Edge recently released the inaugural universe of Corporate Clean Energy Leaders, recognizing corporations that are leading the way in establishing renewable electricity and low-carbon commitments, deploying renewable energy, and investing in clean-tech deployment. As

Provides Innovative Approaches to Implement Climate Change and Fossil Fuel Aware Investing Investors who are interested in proactively seeking opportunities to enhance environmental impact without sacrificing potential financial return now have access to a new framework to transform the dialogue around climate change and the fossil fuel debate into an actionable plan for investing. Morgan

By Jon Hale, head of sustainability research at Morningstar   Sustainable investing is no longer a niche activity. New generations of investors around the world are looking for ways to learn whether the investments they own reflect the best sustainability practices, because it aligns with their values or perhaps they simply believe it can lead

>> Back to April 2016 Issue A Road Map to the Future of Gender Lens Investing – Executive Summary by Joy Anderson and Katherine Miles / Prepared by Criterion Institute   Gender matters. In fact, it matters all the time. Gender matters when we are investing in women-led businesses or in companies that produce goods

Led by millennials, sustainable, responsible and impact investing is growing. Report recommends families appoint an SRI “champion.” A growing number of family offices in the United States are exploring ways to invest for impact, according to a report released in February 2016 by the US SIF Foundation (www.ussif.org) entitled “Family Offices and Investing for Impact:

Sustainable Investment Firms Actively Engaged with Apple to Advocate for Pay Equity Disclosure Pax World Management LLC, investment adviser to Pax World Funds (http://paxworld.com) and a pioneer in the field of sustainable investing, and Arjuna Capital (http://arjuna-capital.com), a sustainable investment advisor, in early March 2016 applauded Apple on its commitment to pay parity. Pax World

>> Back to April 2016 Issue By Kathleen McQuiggan, senior vice president of Global Women\’s Strategies for Pax World Management LLC and managing director of Pax Ellevate Management LLC   Imagine walking into your first Wall Street job, fresh out of college, ready to take on the world. That was me twenty-five years ago when

By Amy Domini, founder of Domini Social Investments and partner in The Sustainability Group   As I was working on this article, the old Buffalo Springfield lyrics kept buzzing through my mind. “There\’s something happening here; what it is ain\’t exactly clear.” The more I looked at actual research about women as investors, both as

>> Back to April 2016 Issue By Lynne Ford, Executive Vice President of Calvert Investments   Three important trends are already changing the asset management industry, and are poised to become even more important in the coming years. First, based on their spending and earning power, women now represent a growth market bigger than those

>> Back to April 2016 Issue By Maria Bolis, senior advisor for Private Sector Department, Oxfam America What if you were never asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” When I was younger, I wasn’t aware that people had different expectations of girls and boys. My parents wanted me to get good