Network for Sustainable Financial Markets

We’ve noticed a few surveys recently that are looking at attitudes to the financial crisis from within the industry (see Norton Rose) http://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/pdf/file25916.pdf, Greenwich did a survey about the Tobin tax http://www.greenwich.com/WMA/in_the_news/news_details/1,1637,1862,00.html?vgnvisitor=eKOZmqOJnJw=)A group of us in the NSFM (Hugh Wheelan, Raj Thamotheram et al.) did a survey late last year, covering some of these themes [...]

NSFM participant Prof Michael Mainelli is pushing forward ideas very compatible with NSFM core beliefs in a new project called the “Long Finance” Movement – see http://www.longfinance.net for more details. The activities include blue-sky research, public policy work and even a book and film! Ultrahedge™ is a Long Finance Production of a McDowell/Mainelli Film in [...]

NSFM participant Hugh Wheelan, editor of Responsible-Investor.com, argues for ESG trade bodies to take a bolder, more strategic approach to the post Global Financial Crisis reforms. http://www.responsible-investor.com/home/article/sust/

Call for papers – World’s first journal for responsible investment Press Release: London, 4th February 2010 The world’s first journal for responsible investment, The Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment has been announced and will be launched in 2011 comprising of four editions per year. The publication will be the first journal to provide a [...]

NSFM participants have been at the forefront of growing attention that is being focused on how interpretation of fiduciary duty has impeded efforts to manage many of the long-term and systemic risks to which pension fund assets are exposed. In a recent meeting attended by several NSFM participants, the chief investment officers of three large US pension [...]