Top Story of the Week Obama to appeal to public on fiscal cliff
(Tuesday - November 27, 2012)
Source: AP - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases... ESG / Sustainability Why a 4°C warmer world must be avoided
(Tuesday - November 27, 2012)
Source: Reuters - It is my hope that this report shocks us into action. Even for those of us already committed to fighting climate change, I hope it causes us to work with much more urgency. This report spells out what the world would be like if... Income inequality: Wealth gap widens between rich, poor
(Monday - November 26, 2012)
Source: Battle Creek Enquirer - "The fact is that income inequality is real. . . And the question is whether we respond to the income inequality we see with policies that help lift people up or tear others down." Those words came not from President Barack... 22nd International Children's Painting Competition
(Thursday - November 22, 2012) Associated Profiles : UN - Environmental Programme
Source: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), - The International Children's Painting Competition on the Environment is organized every year by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Japan-based Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE), Bayer and Nikon...[more] Commentary Joseph A. Matais: Scaring Americans into surrendering their money
(Tuesday - November 27, 2012) Associated Profiles : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC)
- news.providencejournal.com - The smell of money has this affect. Consider this from Ottmar Edenhofer of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: "One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth... How sustainable investors impact industries and corporate policies
(Tuesday - November 27, 2012)
Source: GreenBiz.com - The 2012 Report on Sustainable and Responsible Investing Trends in the United States, released last week by U.S. SIF, is the sustainable, responsible, and impact (SRI) investment industry's primary barometer of the both the... Sovereign Wealth Funds Qatar cashes in to make $2.7 bn from Barclays deal [AlArabiya.net (United Arab Emirates)] (Tuesday - November 27, 2012) Associated Profiles : Qatar Investment Authority
- Equities.com - According to Reuters estimates that amounts to a profit of about 1.7 billion pounds in total. Qatar Holding is part of Qatar Investment Authority, which was set up by the state in 2005 to diversify investments away... UK company pension deficits getting worse - PwC
(Monday - November 26, 2012) Associated Profiles : Pension Protection Fund - United Kingdom
- Reuters UK - Recent figures from the Pension Protection Fund showed the total deficit of British final-salary pension schemes had more than doubled to 231 billion pounds in the space of a year. Gulf firms eye emerging markets for growth
(Friday - November 23, 2012) Associated Profiles : Invest AD
- Peninsula - portfolio manager at Invest AD in Abu Dhabi;. Morocco is considering a possible dollar-denominated bond issue in coming days and plans to launch its investor meetings in Abu Dhabi this week. It's where the money ... Arab Spring economies to recover slowly in 2013
(Wednesday - November 21, 2012) Associated Profiles : Excess Crude Account (Nigeria)
- Punch - Most economies hit by the Arab Spring uprisings will recover slowly next year, grappling with high inflation and rising unemployment due to poor global conditions, the International Monetary Fund predicted in a report on... US Pension Funds Pennsylvania confronts $41 billion pension deficit, according to state report
(Tuesday - November 27, 2012) Associated Profiles : Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System
- pionline - The Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System, Harrisburg, has 65% of assets needed to cover projected liabilities, and the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System, also in Harrisburg, is 69%... Carly Fiorina says public employee pensions are 'so rich'
(Monday - November 26, 2012) Associated Profiles : New Jersey Division of Pensions and Benefits
- But equally, it is not fair that public employee unions pensions and benefits are so rich now that cities and ... New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli Lashes Back At Baseless Allegations from Chevron Corp
(Wednesday - November 21, 2012) Associated Profiles : New York State Common Retirement Fund
Source: AC News Center - "This is a baseless attempt by big oil to intimidate me and it won't work. The allegations are without merit." stated NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli [more] Asset Managers Asian Stocks, Oil Advance on Greece Aid Deal as Yen Weakens
(Tuesday - November 27, 2012) Associated Profiles : MSCI Group (NYSE: MDX)
- San Francisco Gate - The MSCI Asia Pacific Index advanced 0.5 percent as of 2:48 ... All initiatives decided upon today will bring Greece's public debt clearly back on a sustainable path, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude... World's Largest Investors Call For More Decisive Action By Governments on Climate Change
(Wednesday - November 21, 2012)
Source: Investor Group on Climate Change - Groups representing the world's largest investors today published an open letter addressed to governments of the world's largest economies calling for a new dialogue on climate change policy in order to avert dangerous climate... Chart of the Day: how fund managers voted on pay
(Wednesday - November 21, 2012) Associated Profiles : State Street Global Advisors (SSgA)
- efinancialnews.com - Co-op is well-known for a publicly tough stance on executive pay and corporate governance in general, and indeed scooped Financial News' award for Good Steward of the Year in October, in recognition of this.... [more] | Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility Reporting G&A Institute is the Global Reporting
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News Sweeps Green Automotive Company Announces Progress in the Development of a Range of Electric Buses by Subsidiary Newport Coach Works, Inc.
(Wednesday - November 14, 2012) Associated Profiles : Global Sourcing Council
- StreetInsider.com - Recent Meeting in UK between Newport Coach Works, Inc. and Liberty Electric Cars is the start of work on a range of Electric Buses to be built in the NCI facility in California NEWPORT BEACH, Calif... SymphonyIRI Reveals National Brands Gaining on Private Label
(Wednesday - November 14, 2012) Associated Profiles : Global Sourcing Council
- StreetInsider.com - It's no secret that the struggling economy has been a boon for marketers of private label products. Not content to coast on increased consumer acceptance of store brands as... Workforce Diversity -- Walgreens and the Obvious Solution
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