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Sustainable Stock Exchanges – A Conversation with Nasdaq Vice-Chairperson: Sandy Frucher
What is the sustainable stock exchange movement? When we talk about the sustainable stock exchanges project specifically, we’re talking about a UN-based project that has been in the works for several years now. This initiative aims to explore how exchanges
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Greece vs The Euro Righteous: Waiting for the Other Guy to Blink
So far, nobody in Brussels blinked. However, before the week is out somebody will. An eleventh hour compromise between Greece and its creditors is more than likely. According to the analysts at Morgan Stanley, the probability of a Grexit is
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MIGA (World Bank): FDI – Treading Carefully into Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
More than 1.5 billion people – about one in five of the global population – live in what the World Bank Group terms “fragile and conflict-affected situations” (FCS). For many investors, these countries are “no-go” zones due to their weak
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Roderick and Floris Wolters: Freezing the Sun
Rummaging through the archives of Twente Technical University, two enterprising students struck gold: An experiment carried out around the turn of the century but not taken to the next level. After a bit of tinkering, the brothers Roderick and Floris
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Another Inconvenient Truth: Vice Pays
The politically correct and socially sustainable is, though certainly laudable, not particularly profitable. Investors shunning sin stocks manage portfolios that are, on average, significantly less profitable than those possessed by shareholders without similar scruples. A study released earlier this week
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Book Review: Plus ça Change, Plus c’est la même Chose
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein Naomi Klein has seen the future and it does not look good. Right at the beginning of her new book – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate – Mrs
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Luxury Living: Music Delivered the Old-Fashioned Way
The news of its death was greatly exaggerated. Sales of vinyl records are spinning through the roof. According to Nielsen – an American company that monitors global media usage – sales of records are on track to exceed six million
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Europe & Greece: The Gathering of the Perfect Storm
The bears took hold of most European markets earlier today on news that the Greek government is determined to end austerity and will not be seeking an extension of the bailout agreement with its creditors. In a defiant speech delivered
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Ginni Rometty: Steering a Behemoth onto the Cloud
Considered the world’s most powerful woman in business in 2012, IBM Chairperson and CEO Ginni Rometty is steering her company to the cloud. Not one to set modest goals, Mrs Rometty wants IBM to reclaim its dominant position by identifying
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Principles for Responsible Investment: Investors Must Commit to Engaging Policymakers
The recent mobilisation by institutional investors over the climate change issue has captured media attention around the globe, clearly demonstrating the power investors have when it comes to engaging policymakers. While investor engagement with policymakers is not new, what has
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