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 [...]
NSFM participants in action: Frank Partnoy on the benefits of 1930s style financial regulation; Will Oulton’s edits a new book on investing in a low-carbon world; Raj Thomotheram and Maxime Le Floc’h on ‘preventable surprises’
by Charlotte on 20. May, 2012 in Blog
Pension Fund Governance Best Practices Cite Keith Johnson and Frank Jan de Graaf; NSFM Participant Event on the Role of Household Savings and Debt in a Sustainable Economy
by Charlotte on 10. May, 2012 in Blog
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’s new book – Northern Europe as a Role Model: Successful Enterprise in a Globalising Economy
by Charlotte on 07. May, 2012 in Blog
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 [...]
5 days to register for Harvard Business Review/McKinsey ‘Long-Term Capitalism Challenge’
by Charlotte on 06. May, 2012 in Blog
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 [...]
NSFM Director, Steve Viederman on: ‘My Vocation’
by Charlotte on 30. Apr, 2012 in Blog
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 [...]
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- NSFM participants in action: Frank Partnoy on the benefits of 1930s style financial regulation; Will Oulton’s edits a new book on investing in a low-carbon world; Raj Thomotheram and Maxime Le Floc’h on ‘preventable surprises’
- Pension Fund Governance Best Practices Cite Keith Johnson and Frank Jan de Graaf; NSFM Participant Event on the Role of Household Savings and Debt in a Sustainable Economy
- NSFM Director, Frank Jan de Graaf’s new book – Northern Europe as a Role Model: Successful Enterprise in a Globalising Economy
- 5 days to register for Harvard Business Review/McKinsey ‘Long-Term Capitalism Challenge’
- NSFM Director, Steve Viederman on: ‘My Vocation’
- Did investors act as enablers of the banking crisis? – NSFM workshop in Edinburgh last week. Now we’d like YOUR help!
- The ‘mother of all preventable surprises’; exploring what fiduciary duty requires; New York event – sustainable investing for the public benefit
- NSFM Edinburgh workshop; World Economic Forum report on short-term investing; ESG data – a behavioural experiment; FT on ‘walking the talk’ in SRI
- London Fiduciary Duty Roundtable Identifies Practices to Reclaim Fiduciary Duty Fundamentals
- NSFM participants in action: Avinash Persaud on Financial Transaction Taxes; Hazel Henderson’s ‘Green Transition Scoreboard’; Sean Kidney and Climate Bonds on camera!
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