May 2014 – How Nature Will Influence Investing

  Everence and the Praxis Intermediate Income Fund have recently purchased a total of $3.5 million in the auto industry’s first-ever asset-backed Green Bond through Toyota Financial Services. Issued in March 2014, the $1.75 billion Toyota Financial Services Green Bond offering (which was increased from its original $1.25 billion due to strong investor demand) is

The Impact Economy is Global and Diverse: Companies From 15 Countries and 31 Industries Recognized As Leaders in Redefining Success in Business   Recently, 92 companies worldwide were recognized for creating the most positive overall social and environmental impact by the nonprofit B Lab with the release of the third annual ‘B Corp Best for

New Fund Targets Risk-Averse Investors Seeking Income and Diversification from Equity Income and Fixed Income Portfolios   Community Capital Management, Inc. (CCM), recently announced the availability of its new open ended, mutual fund – the CCM Alternative Income Fund (Ticker: CCMNX) – a multi-strategy fund combining absolute-return-oriented and income-producing strategies. “CCMNX was specifically created for

  New Technologies and Business Models like the Medicines Patent Pool that Challenge Conventional Pricing, R & D and Intellectual Property Paradigms Seen as Critical if Pharmaceutical Industry is to Meet Health Care Needs in Developing and Emerging Markets On April 7th, 2014 in commemoration of World Health Day 2014, members of the Interfaith Center

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,