I always look forward to summer in Northern New Mexico, a time for renewal, and a return to outdoors. For a variety of personal and professional reasons, both positive, I have decided to do two print newsletters and two E-newsletters this year. The lineup of articles is quite good, as you’ll see with this issue.
If you are a financial advisor, you already help your clients find socially responsible public equity investments. Now there’s an opportunity to engage your clients in a conversation about high impact private equity investments. “Impact investing” is a term being used to describe direct investments in companies and private equity funds that explicitly seek to
by Seth Goldman, co-founder and President of Honest Tea “I’d like to teach the world to drink organic”. In March of this year Honest Tea was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company, completing a transaction that began with Coke’s minority investment back in 2008. While the Coca-Cola and Honest Tea relationship is still new, it’s not
By Bill Bynum, CEO of Hope Enterprise Corporation & Hope Credit Union The Gulf Coast is a unique region, built by a diverse population that balances a rich cultural heritage with a thriving business environment. And at its heart is New Orleans; a city that is truly unlike any other in the world. It blends
>> Back to Fall 2011 Issue Featuring Holly Mosher, producer of the film ‘Bonsai’ interviewing Grameen Bank founder Dr. Muhammad Yunus When award-winning filmmaker Holly Mosher read about 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and the story of Grameen Bank’s microcredit to women in Bangladesh, she was fascinated. Why had an economist and a
Back to Winter 2011/2012 Issue These are trying times. It seems Washington politicians want to divide us over debt and spending, while across America people need jobs and businesses need access to more capital. Each of us, here and around the world, has a role in fixing and in a sense redesigning the economy as
>> Back to Fall 2012 Issue By Joe Keefe, President and CEO, Pax World Management Twenty years from now, we will have either successfully transitioned from our current economic growth paradigm to a new model of Sustainable Capitalism or we will be suffering the calamitous consequences of our failure to do so. Likewise, sustainable investing
by Daniel Brooksbank, Responsible Investor (February 15, 2012) Boutique’s founders issue blueprint for sustainable finance Al Gore and David Blood, the founders of Generation Investment Management, have called for the creation of a sustainable investment consultancy as part of a sweeping blueprint to “re-energize” sustainable finance, which they argue has reached a plateau. “We support
Center for Responsible Lending – Durham, North Carolina – Defending American Consumers 2012 Recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions (MACEI) Center for Responsible Lending researches and publicizes predatory lending practices to advance reforms that help ordinary Americans. The financial troubles of this decade have shown that many lending practices are stacked
Publishers Note: Welcome to the Future – The Next 20 Years: Part 2 I have always looked to the future with a feeling of optimism, and wondered where I’d be in it and how it would look. Also, as a publisher I have the ongoing opportunity to think about and plan for the future as
