Network for Sustainable Financial Markets

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, [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]

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.  [...]