July – August 2013 – Sustainable Business & Investing

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  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

  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

  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,

  Host Kate Noble Interviews GreenMoney’s founder Cliff Feigenbaum on June 10, 2013 about Green Investing, being an entrepreneur, and GreenMoney’s 20th Anniversary.      

>> Back to July/August 2013 Issue   Harnessing our Collective Best Selves: Why Conservatives and Progressives are both right, and how to get us singing off the same song sheet by Bill Shireman, President and CEO of the Future 500 I am grateful and honored to speak with you at Sustainable Brands 2013 (www.sustainablebrands.com/events/ ).

>> Back to July/August 2013 Issue   By Brian Kaminer, founder, Talgra LLC The Directory is a great resource and starting point for anyone interested in aligning their money and core values.  My Roadmap After 17 years in the brokerage business at a boutique trading firm, I got the chance to explore areas that were

>> Back to July/August 2013 Issue   By David Reiling, CEO, Sunrise Banks Compassion is our motivation Our mission is to Empower Our spirit is to Achieve Whether you call it impact investing, community and economic development or values based banking, I believe that Sunrise Banks can open the doors of financial inclusion to help

>> Back to July/August 2013 Issue   By Ryan Gerlach, Paul Herman, Samuel Hecker and Eddie Bernhardt Investors seeking impact apply their entire portfolio to build a better world while seeking a stronger and more resilient portfolio. With $24 trillion of corporate bonds and $3.7 trillion of municipal bonds, investors have many choices for integrating

Back to July/August 2013 Issue   By David Wolf, Chief Investment Officer & Managing Principal, BSW Wealth Partners “Good is the enemy of great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because