Socially Responsible Investing: Aspiration & Impact

Socially Responsible Investing: Aspiration & Impact

Published November 26th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

The Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing marked its 25th anniversary this month. Few conferences can claim justly to have changed their field – in this case, financial services –…

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The Australian National University Divests; All Hell Breaks Loose

The Australian National University Divests; All Hell Breaks Loose

Published October 20th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

For a university like ours, which is … a major researcher in environment and alternative energy, we need to be able to put our hand on our heart when we…

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‘A Friedman Doctrine – The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits’: 44 Years Later

Published September 12th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

September 13 marks the 44th anniversary of the publication of University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman’s article, ‘A Friedman Doctrine – The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase…

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Global Warming Campaigners: What They Can Learn from the Tobacco War

Published June 4th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

Coal and tobacco: Do today’s global warming campaigners have something to learn from the tobacco wars? A lot, I think. Yesterday’s New York Times headline feed featured…

Gambling & Socially Responsible Investing: Four Quotations

Published May 17th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

For as long as I’ve been involved with Socially Responsible Investing, its practitioners have declined to invest in gaming stocks, particularly those associated with an online…

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Lessons from Harvard’s Fossil-Fuel Divestment Letter: Elect New Trustees

Published April 11th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

Harvard’s produced an interesting week for those pushing for fossil-fuel free investments. On Monday, its president, Drew Gilpin Faust, posted a long email justifying the University’s positions and…

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Fear, Fortitude & the Future: Toward Investor Standards Based on History for Gauging Preparation for Warming

Published November 1st, 2013 by Peter Kinder

Note: This post is a revised version of a talk I gave at the 24th annual Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing sponsored by First Affirmative Financial Network (FAFN)…

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Fossil Fuel Divestment: A Look at Some Precedents

Published July 19th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

I don’t feel ambivalent about fossil fuel divestment. I feel torn. On the one hand, I’ve watched shareholder engagement work since 1979 when I was introduced to…

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‘Follow the Money’: A Shaggy Dog Story About a Rule Rarely Applied Right

Published June 20th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

Three months before the Watergate Bunglers were caught – 41 years ago on June 17 – I finished the best[1] course of my university and law school years.…

‘Through the Eye of a Needle’: The Rich Make the Passage

Published February 7th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

Just beneath the surface of socially responsible investing lies an intense, unresolvable debate about wealth: its nature, its purposes, its duties. Peter Brown’s wonderful and wondrous Through…

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