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CFA launches SRI guidelines

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... list was developed after CFA members highlighted the need for guidelines and the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends found SRI assets had grown faster than all other investment assets under professional management. In addition, 380 institutional ...

Watson Wyatt sharpens SRI focus

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
Watson Wyatt has strengthened its ethical and socially responsible investing (SRI) consulting credentials with the appointment of a specialist to the global manager research team. Jane Goodland joins the investment consulting business as a specialist ...

Sustainable investing eclipses SRI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Socially responsible investing built on the ideas of simply screening out bad investments is naA-ve and doesn't do much more than confuse investors, said McKinsey & Co in a report to clients. "Early approaches simplistically screened out 'sin sectors' ...

LGSS reaps $6m from SRI

The Local Government Superannuation Scheme's (LGSS) initiative to follow a strict socially responsible investing (SRI) policy paid off to the tune of more than $6 million, proof you don't have to be bad to be good. The LGSS board calculated that its ...

SRI next gen - funds that only invest in companies run by women

If Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) needs ideas, they need look no further than the $A50 million Women's Equity Fund (WEF) in the US. WEF invests only in companies that seek to increase leadership opportunities for women employees, or who agree ...

Socially responsible investing moves to mainstream

Mercer Investment Consulting's 2005 global Fearless Focus survey has revealed socially responsible investing (SRI) will become common practice in investment management with 73 per cent of investment managers predicting the incorporation of social/environmental ...

Socially Responsible Investing favoured by both retail and wholesale

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) continues to be accepted by both the retail and wholesale market with assets of SRI managed funds growing by 41 per cent. The Ethical Investment Association's recent SRI benchmark survey reported that private portfolios ...

Ethical managers struggling to attract funds: report

... remain relevant, according to research by Rainmaker Information. Although the total value of ethical/socially responsible investing funds under managment (FUM) increased by 17% during 2002 (and up 6.5% in the December quarter), the sector is dominated ...
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