That’s a 16% increase since the SIO last surveyed the industry in 2010.
Investors are reconsidering their support of the gun industry.
SRI Moniter reports that Mercer is looking into rewards for shareholders over worries that short-termism may be negatively affecting the way corporations are managed.
Eight sustainable investment organizations from around the world are teaming up to create a report on the global scope of sustainable and responsible investment. The harmonized global “Trends” report—the first joint initiative by the organizations—is scheduled for release in December 2012.
AGF Management has announced it will fully amalgamate Acuity Funds into AGF Investments. AGF bought the smaller SRI-focused fund company in a deal that closed February 2011.
Ethical Markets Media has released its 2012 Green Transition Scoreboard, the newest report based on their global scoring system used to track private sector investments in green companies and technologies since 2007.
Concerned that advisors aren’t talking to their clients about socially responsible investing, the Social Investment Organization will push for rules mandating advisors to ask about a client’s interest in SRI.
Toronto is now home to the world’s first non-U.S.-based hub for B Corporations, or companies that use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.
Canadians are increasingly interested in socially responsible investing, but not at the cost of capital gains, according to a study commissioned by Standard Life.
Recently recognized asset class provides social and financial returns - It was only last year the phrase impact investing was first used to distinguish investments intended to create positive impact beyond financial returns from the wider trend of socially responsible investment.