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2010 Responsible Investment Journalism Award

Congratulations are due to Hugh Wheelan, managing editor of Responsible-Investor.com and an NSFM participant, who has won the inaugural 2010 Responsible Investment Journalism Award presented by PIRC (Pension Investment Research Consultants), the UK voting research company and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, the US law firm. The award, which is to become an annual event, [...]

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Debate about what the REAL fiduciary duty is enters mainstream

The debate about fiduciary duty is one which NSFM members and others have been pushing whenever and wherever we can, but generally it’s in specialist circles and publications.  This weekend, the (UK) Observer carried an unusually challenging op-ed about what should be the real fiduciary duty of asset owners.  It was written by its business [...]

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Hearst Castle Steps

44 Steps towards market reform

NSFM mamber Friedrich Mostboeck, Vice-Chairman of the OVFA (Austrian Association for Financial Analysis and Asset Management, http://www.oevfa.at) has been carefully watching the financial and economic crisis over the past three years and is proposing 44 steps to avoid future crisis and facilitate market reform. His report Corporate Responsibility 2.0.: From Corporate Responsibility to “General Responsibility” [...]

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Ed Waitzer on ESG disclosure

Ed Waitzer on ESG disclosure

NSFM supporter (and member of the NSFM coordinating team) Ed Waitzer is co-author of a new report arguing that the Toronto Stock Exchange – home to more mining and hydrocarbon companies than any other exchange in the world – should disclose more information about their environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts than they currently do.  [...]

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NSFM Wealth Management Industry report provides blueprint for reform

The Network for Sustainable Financial Markets (NSFM) has today released “Wealth Management in a Post-GFC World – Promoting best practice, innovation & sustainable outcomes for industry, consumers & society”. Download the full report here. The landmark report provides a blueprint for addressing market scandals and structural failings which continue to plague the multi-trillion dollar global [...]

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