Network for Sustainable Financial Markets

In a letter published in The Times today NSFM participants Catherine Howarth, Steve Waygood, Jeremy Leggett, Charles Scanlan and Raj Thamotheram, along with other experts, have called for legislative changes around fiduciary duties. The letter calls for legal clarification at a time when investors are being called upon to tackle so-called ‘crony capitalism’ and excessive executive pay: [...]

 *Save the date* Reclaiming Fiduciary Balance for the 21st Century – NSFM Roundtables with Keith Johnson for Asset Owners and their Advisors London: 19 March 2012 from 9.30am Amsterdam: 23 March 2012 from 12.30pm Boston: 30 March 2012 time to be confimed The Fiduciary Duty Working Group of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets (NSFM), co-sponsored [...]

Work of the NSFM Fiduciary Duty Working Group has grown into a series of fiduciary duty roundtables being co-sponsored with the University of Toronto’s Rotman International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM). These roundtables focus on key challenges for improving the effectiveness of fiduciaries which were highlighted in an International Journal of Pension Management article by [...]

Portfolio managers are failing on ESG integration, according to Mercer research out last week. Only 9% of more than 5,000 ESG strategies analysed gained top ratings, based on the extent to which portfolio managers integrate ESG into the investment process and follow good stewardship practices. Quoted in an article in the FT, NSFM supporter and European Head of [...]

Recently published, Evolutions in Sustainable Investing aims to give real world guidance for investment professionals on delivering attractive risk-adjusted and opportunity-directed returns across asset classes and regions. Filled with interviews with leading practitioners, this book weaves a narrated web around best sustainable investment practices, guiding readers specifically on investing their assets and with specific sustainability trends [...]