SIRAN and KLD to Present
New Corporate Social Responsibility Study Findings
KLD Research & Analytics, Inc. and the Social Investment Research Analysts Network (SIRAN) are releasing the findings of their annual study covering the 2006 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting for S&P 100 companies. Along with other industry experts, Katy Chapdelaine, Research Analyst at KLD, will present the findings at the annual Ceres conference, April 25-26 at the Seaport Hotel, Boston. Read More...
Water: A Source of Life, A Source of Profit
There are certain goods so essential to life one would hope they rise above the quarter-to-quarter push for profits that define the private sector. Water is one of these. How, a local farmer asks, could a water distribution company refuse water to a low-income group unable (“unwilling”, as many companies phrase it) to pay, and carry on unabashed? Read More...
KLD Signs Investors’ Call for Climate Action
In March, KLD joined an unprecedented coalition of investors and businesses managing $4 trillion in combined assets calling for Washington to take action and pass legislation that would curb the pollution causing global climate change. Read More...
KLD Sees Continued Demand for Climate Change Investment Solutions
KLD is pleased to announce that it has recently licensed the KLD Global Climate 100 Index ("GC100"), the world's first global index focused on the climate solutions value chain, for a unit investment trust (“trust”). Fixed Income Securities, L.P., acting through its Advisors Asset Management division, will sponsor the trust with an anticipated launch date of late April 2007. Read More...
UBS launches the KLD Dividend Achievers
Social Investing Series 2007A
On March 27th, UBS AG announced that it launched the KLD Dividend Achievers Social Investing Series 2007A, a unique unit investment trust [“UIT”] designed to meet the needs of UBS Wealth Management US clients who are seeking socially responsible investments with a track record of increasing dividends. Read More...
Book Reviews
As we head into spring and summer vacation seasons, I wanted to note four important books I’ve read recently. Each will make a good house gift or a hammock companion. Read More...
UK SIF Celebrates 15th Birthday
Happy 15th birthday to the UK Social Investment Forum, which will mark the event with a gala at the Lord Chancellor’s Residence on Downing Street. It is a birthday all of us in SRI should join in celebrating. Read More...
Principles, Paulson & Piffle
On March 13, US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson opened a conference on corporate regulation post Sarbanes-Oxley with remarks that should trouble everyone concerned with corporate governance, shareholder rights, or a just society. Read More...
Commentary on The Ruggie Report:
The Interplay of Business, States and Human Rights
On March 28, John Ruggie, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on business and human rights, submitted his second report to the UN Human Rights Council. Among other things, Ruggie’s report addresses Read More...
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