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Advisors Take Different Paths To SRI Investing

By Jerilyn Klein Bier - Friday, 03 February 2012
Three advisory firms explain how and why they serve mainstream investors who want to invest with an SRI bent.

Green Dividends

By Ellie Winninghoff - Friday, 03 February 2012
HIP Investor Inc. has applied its performance-based sustainability metrics to preferred stocks and REITs.

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Canada, Alberta To Outline Oil Sands Monitoring Program

Friday, 03 February 2012
The government of Canada and the province of Alberta will outline its program for monitoring the environmental impact of the oil sands industry, an Alberta environment ministry spokeswoman said.

Flying High

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Thursday, 26 January 2012
Eight American companies have been named top sustainable investments by a prestigious investment boutique that annually rates companies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.

‘Social Equity’ To Be Weighed In U.S. Transit Funding Rule

Wednesday, 25 January 2012
The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to give more weight to factors including social and environmental benefits in deciding which local mass-transit initiatives will get federal money.

ESG: Liquid Impact Investments?

By Tom Kostigen - Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Fund managers and wealth advisors are stretching the definition of impact investing, devising proprietary portfolios comprised of publicly traded securities concentrated on the tenets of ESG—environment, social, and governance factors—and dubbing them impact investment portfolios.

Another Look At Muni Bonds

By Dorothy Hinchcliff - Monday, 16 January 2012
Financial advisors typically evaluate the maturities, call features and credit quality of clients’ municipal bond portfolios. But advisors could build business and cement relationships by seeing if the bonds are in line with their clients’ social values, says Harris May, president of Strategic Partners Investment Advisors, a fee-based money manager with $400 million in AUM that specialized in managing muni bond portfolios.

Green Funds That Merit The Name

By Ellie Winninghoff - Friday, 06 January 2012
Colleges and universities are earning robust returns by using green revolving funds to cut carbon emissions and energy costs.

LEDs May Be 80% Of Light Bulb Market By 2020

Thursday, 22 December 2011
General Electric Co. expects most light bulbs, including the incandescent invented by founder Thomas Edison, to be replaced within a decade by light-emitting diodes that can last from a child’s birth through college.

Biggest Polluters Hold Up Deal At UN Global Warming Talks

Friday, 09 December 2011
China, the U.S. and India, the three biggest polluters, maintained resistance to a time line leading to the next agreement on global warming.