News & Commentaries
April 2007
180 Global Institutions Sign UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). – [COMMENTARY] The PRI is really another name for socially and environmentally responsible investing. It is indeed heartening to see how mainstream such investing concepts are becoming. I just hope that these signatories are serious and that it is not only a corporate public relations exercise. Most…
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 on Chinese paper imported into the US. It has determined that China provides an unfair subsidy to these products. Before the US proceeds too far down this path, it should note the biblical injunction that…
2006 Editors Choice
Ethical Investing Launch of Three New Clean Tech Indexes Culminates Banner Year for Green Investing, by Bill Baue, SocialFunds.com, December 29, 2006. Institutional Investors in France Foresee Continuing Growth of Socially Responsible Investing – Ethical Investing, by Bill Baue, SocialFunds.com, December 14, 2006. Eurosif Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Study reveals a European SRI Market valued…
2005 Editors Choice
Ethical Investing Are socially responsible investors different from conventional investors? A comparison across six countries, by Geoffrey Williams, Associate Professor of Financial Economics, Nottingham University Business School, December 2005. Fiduciary Duty Redefined to Allow Environmental, Social and Governance Considerations, by William Baue, SRI-advisor.com, November 3, 2005. Institutional Investors’ Legal Responsibilities on Environmental, Social and Governance…
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 that′s about 2,000 years old. “As you sow, so shall you reap,” opines the founder of Investing for the Soul, a Toronto-based company that tells people how to employ their religious values when they invest.…
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 about not having enough money to live after retirement” rose in two years to 73 percent from 54 percent. Yet many employees fail to put much thought into planning their pensions. This is where companies…
