Since 2002
Postings and Commentaries
by Ron Robins
Podcast: September 2026 Sustainable Stock and ETF Picks
September 2026 Sustainable Stock and ETF Picks. Includes top analyst picks on AI infrastructure stocks, alternative energy, and wind stocks.…
May 2008
Companies In US Coming Clean On Their Political Contributions. – [COMMENTARY] Finally, more US public companies are seeing fit to provide details on…
April 2008
The Dream Of Energy-Efficient Superconductivity At hand. – [COMMENTARY] Green investors take note. Superconductivity has long held-out the promise of enormous efficiencies in…
March 2008
Data Shows Swiss Banks Engaging Heavily In Funding Sustainable Development. – [COMMENTARY] “OnValues, a Swiss sustainable research company…. found that Swiss fund managers…
February 2008
Nearly 45% Of Canadian Bank Shareholders Approve ’Say-On-Pay’ Resolution. – [COMMENTARY] Shareholders of one of Canada’s largest banks, the Canadian Imperial Bank of…
January 2008
UN Global Compact Delists Hundreds Of Companies For Missing Reporting Deadlines. – [COMMENTARY] Similar to ’greenwashing’ where companies say they are green but…
December 2007
American Charitable Foundations Aligning Their Investments To Social Goals. – [COMMENTARY] The $8.5 billion William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the $6.1-billion John D.…
2007 Editors Choice
Ethical Investing IMCA Journal of Investment Consulting Publishes New Paper on Socially Responsible Investments, November 7, 2007, Marketwire.com, USA. Ethical…
November 2007
61% Of French Institutional Investors Had Ventured Into Socially Responsible Investing In 2007, Up From 48% In 2006. – [COMMENTARY] “Altogether, 31% of…
October 2007
Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management’s Investment Portfolio Criticized. – [COMMENTARY] The list of stocks in this portfolio seems like that of most large…
September 2007
Myanmar (Burma) – Global Oil Companies Directly Supporting The Military Regime. – [COMMENTARY] Take a look at all the oil companies mentioned in…
August 2007
A Review Of US Clean Energy Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). – [COMMENTARY] ETFs are funds that trade like a stock, and now…
July 2007
Global Fair Trade Sales Grow 41% In 2006 Over 2005. – [COMMENTARY] It will be interesting to see when Fair Trade’s products…
June 2007
Poor Ethics, Moral Hazard Endanger Global Financial System. – [COMMENTARY] This Financial Times (FT) of London story is an excellent overview of what is…
May 2007
Major Canadian Bank To Offer Socially Responsible Mutual Funds. – [COMMENTARY] RBC Asset Management, a subsidiary of Canada’s largest bank, the Royal…
April 2007
180 Global Institutions Sign UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). – [COMMENTARY] The PRI is really another name for socially and environmentally…
March 2007
Bad Ethics. The Bashing of China’s Trade Policies. – [COMMENTARY] The US Commerce Department announced that it is going to place economic sanctions…
2006 Editors Choice
Ethical Investing Launch of Three New Clean Tech Indexes Culminates Banner Year for Green Investing, by Bill Baue, SocialFunds.com, December…
2005 Editors Choice
Ethical Investing Are socially responsible investors different from conventional investors? A comparison across six countries, by Geoffrey Williams, Associate Professor…
2,000-year-old investing strategy
BY MICHAEL SWAN The Catholic Register TORONTO Updated Monday, August 15, 2005 Ron Robins has an approach to the market…
Moral Investing: Employers should offer employees workshops on ethical investing for their RRSPs.
By Ron Robins The Canadian Labour Congress released a poll in August 2004 showing that the percentage of those “worried…

