Network for Sustainable Financial Markets

Rebuild the pillars of 1930s Wall Street – banks should be forced to disclose important financial information and there should be a robust anti-fraud regime, writes NSFM participant Frank Partnoy in an article in the Financial Times. **** Will Oulton, Head of Responsible Investment EMEA, Mercer, and NSFM participant has edited Investment Opportunities for a [...]

The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) has released its governance best practices for public pension fund officials, citing Keith Johnson and Frank Jan de Graaf’s 2009 paper: Modernizing Pension Fund Legal Standards for the Twenty-First Century.  With more than 550 US and Canadian public pension fund members managing $3 trillion in assets, [...]

NSFM Director, Frank Jan de Graaf in collaboration with Nol Hovens and Herman Blom has recently finished a book: Northern Europe as a Role Model: Successful Enterprise in a Globalising Economy. The book follows an earlier paper written with fellow NSFM Director, Cindy Williams on the intellectual foundations of the global financial crisis. Does Northern [...]

Dear NSFMers We’ve just found out about a competition being run by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Co to encourage a long-term approach to capitalism. They are looking for stories (about projects in action) and “hacks” which are bold, radical ideas. We are sure many of you could contribute and some of you may [...]

Until March 2000 while I was gainfully employed I easily, if retrospectively wrongly, answered the question “what do you do?” I was the president of a philanthropic foundation supporting work on economic and environmental justice, and reproductive rights, with a particular focus on communities of color, and sustainable agriculture, and investing its assets to harmonize [...]