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Sustainable Finance: Responsible micro-lending seemed to have perfected the union of sustainability and finance. The provision of credit and counseling to poor women has

Sustainable Finance: To create the new, we must incessantly destroy the old. Or so goes the theory of creative destruction and "industrial mutation" held up by Joseph Sch

Sustainable Finance: Activity by the investor relations (IR) team at SABMiller [LON: SAB, JNB: SAB] is causing a bit of a stir in the [small] world of institutional inves

Sustainable Finance: How to choose where to put money: creating software applications, launching community small, medium, micro enterprise [SMME] hubs of barbers, gyms an

Sustainable Finance: Oddly enough, our extremely legalistic world finds a vast majority of investment professionals facing this predicament: They need the United Nations

Sustainable Finance: The investment policy statement [IPS] is a critical document that establishes how an investment firm, or pension fund, or organization goes about mak

Social Enterprise: Directing capital toward meeting social goals above financial goals is, like hiking up Table Mountain, not a stroll in the park [no, the cableway was

Sustainable Finance: Investing in water has been touted for a few years as the next great investable theme in sustainable finance. But "blue Gold" is not as catchy as "bl

Sustainable Finance: "Do you believe that diversity in the boardroom is a significant issue?" The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the government body charg

Sustainable Finance: So what do we want of banks? A fair question and more sharply pointed in the post-2008 financial meltdown. The skeletons of some banks that fell over

Sustainable Finance: The UN meeting in Copenhagen in December to try and set new rules of the game on emitting green house gases, namely carbon dioxide, was in or around

Sustainable Finance: Thirtysomething. Yip, that still has a good ring to it. And while my wife keeps trying to round it up to forty, it works for a while longer. So I was

Sustainable Finance: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, tha

Sustainable Finance: Nice work by the judge in US vs Madoff. The slimy Mr Madoff was sentenced to 150 years with cheers from the courtroom. Do you also think he reminds y

Sustainable Finance: How many ways may we successfully present the ESG factors in the sustainability investment case? Finding numbers for the cost/benefit of sustainabili

Sustainable Finance: This month San-Diego start-up Genomatica announced a breakthrough in the field of sustainable chemicals-they successfully converted natural sugar int

Sustainable Finance: Millions have lost jobs, and some of those have directly impacted SRI. In the numbers are real lives of real people. Including investment people. SRI

Ethical Consumption: Has everyone heard the news? Yes, the Queen, following in the footsteps of Michelle Obama is getting in the locavore action and is growing a vegetabl

Sustainable Finance: Last Monday 8 June in Stockholm, Sweden at the IMN 8th European Summit on Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment I was invited to opine on t

Sustainable Finance: Whom do you trust? The Economist in 2008 reported estimates for professionally managed assets was around USD 64 trillion [EUR 45 trn] at the end of 2