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Category Archives: Investing
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Emily DeMasi in Investing 2 days ago
Urban Partnership Bank, the reincarnation of pioneer CDFI ShoreBank Corp, cut its workforce by 20% last week. Is this a necessary evil to continue a good banking mission? ShoreBank, the Chicago-based community bank that since 1973 was a leader in the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) industry, was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on… Read More…
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Keenan Shaw in Energy 15 days ago
Energy efficiency service companies (ECOs) soon may be venturing abroad to take their businesses into regions where the demand for energy is growing tremendously. The most notable countries in need for energy efficiency technology and services are China, India, and countries in the Middle East. Although China’s solar energy industry is among the world’s largest,… Read More…
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Whether you are a social enterprise, NGO (non-governmental organization), non-profit, policy-maker or an investor interested in a quantifiable social return on your investment, measuring social value remains an elusive goal. A new article by Geoff Mulgan suggests a new approach in measuring social value that calls for collaboration across sectors. In a recent collaborative project… Read More…
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Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) has become a nearly $3 trillion dollar industry in the United States. Investors in SRI use screening and shareholder advocacy to influence corporations to improve their environmental practices, social impact and governance issues. What I was surprised to find out was that community investing is the fastest growing area of SRI. … Read More…
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Jonathan Banco in Corporate Social Responsibility 38 days ago
Since 1997 the United States government has enforced economic sanctions on Sudan, by keeping American businesses from working with Khartoum and the al-Bashir government. This was due to the fact that Sudan was placed on the list of “state sponsors of terrorism”. Of course, this was a number of years before the genocide in Darfur… Read More…
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Lane Jost in Energy 42 days ago
Apega/WENN Today’s Chicago Tribune business section has a stunning report on the Republic of South Korea’s $25 million plan to reduce energy consumption at some of downtown Chicago’s largest skyscrapers. The operation will focus on retrofitting HVAC and lighting systems in up to 14 buildings. Joining Korea in the agreement are the Building Owners and… Read More…
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“Perfect is the enemy of the good.” – Voltaire [Dictionnaire Philosophique -- 1764] Yesterday’s news from the Gulf was better than it has been: BP has begun to make consequential strides at plugging the deep-water oil leak. Since the explosion, we’ve seen dramatic responses from the left (no more oil and gas exploration), the right… Read More…
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Guest Contributor in Investing 66 days ago
In the guest post below, Ambrose Desmond who runs sustainablog’s green investment subdomain discusses the risk of investing in Tesla Motors. by Ambrose Desmond Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley-based electric vehicle innovator is slated to sell $244 million of stock in an IPO on June 29. While Tesla is clearly one of the most exciting… Read More…
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Cindy Tickle in Investing 92 days ago
Socially responsible investors send a clear message to BP: the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is not okay. Another nail in BP’s coffin. The oil company responsible for the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history was removed from the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) effective May 31, 2010. The DJSI are the first… Read More…
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Jeffrey Berlin in Investing 356 days ago
Even a year gone since the failure of Lehman, fundamental questions remain regarding the core underlying assumptions of our financial system. Though currently derivatives trading and black boxes appear out of favour, what will replace them in terms of helpful and productive uses of capital still has yet to be determined. This question was what the Conference… Read More…
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What if you call your HR department or brokerage firm and discover you don’t have SRI options available with your 401(k)? Does that mean you can’t be a socially responsible investor? Of course not. If you own shares in a company, you have partial ownership and certain privileges. Corporations mail out their annual reports containing… Read More…
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When you disagree with a company’s sustainable or lack of sustainable business practices, what do you do? You contact the company. You sign a petition. You boycott their products. You inspired others to “vote with their feet” or “vote with their dollars.” You pride yourself in the fact that you don’t shop at Walmart or… Read More…
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Kevin Jones in Investing 387 days ago
[social_buttons] A bridge is about to open up that will make things easier but safer for people who want make their investments consistent with their values. Just like a bridge makes traveling between two islands easier, the new rating system to be unveiled at Socap09 will be like taking a train instead of having to… Read More…
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Reethira Kumar in Conservation 475 days ago
Market Facilitation in Ecosystem Services; Contemporary Developing Cases in the UK Is there reason to believe that there maybe profit to be made by investing in eco investments while conserving the environment? There does exist some scepticism about the market’s involvement in green initiatives. Even though research conducted by Frost & Sullivan about the telecom… Read More…
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Ramsay Mameesh in Inspiring Ideas 572 days ago
Think Globally – Act Locally. Green Municipal Bonds offer the opportunity to rescue the economy and the environment. Local governments are needlessly watching their economies disintegrate, waiting and begging for handouts from Washington D.C., while all along the power to save their economies and help the environment lies in their hands – Green Municipal Bonds…. Read More…
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Rob Yunich in Inspiring People 587 days ago
In a wide-ranging interview with PBS’s “Nightly Business Report” on Jan. 22, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett addressed the economy, credit crisis, government stimulus bills, the Madoff scandal and his own investing strategy.
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Reenita Malhotra in Inspiring People 588 days ago
Warren Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway says that President Obama’s #1 job is to fix is the economy but even though we have “got the right person in the operating room, but it doesn’t mean the patient is going to leave the hospital tomorrow.” In an exclusive interview with PBS’s Nightly Business Report, Warren… Read More…
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Fred Etcheverry in Investing 619 days ago
If we dared to complain about the stratospheric price of houses, we were told, “Hey, it’s just the natural law of supply and demand!”
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John-Paul Maxfield in Investing 675 days ago
The economy is in crisis, unemployment is on the rise, and there is a general feeling of fear in the market. Where some see despair, Warren Buffett sees opportunity. In a recent Op-Piece in the New York Times, Mr. Buffett explains his reasons for investing in US Equities and urges others to do the same. He… Read More…
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Everyone is petrified of losing money in this crazy whirlwind of stock market yo-yo-ing lately. The fall of Lehman brothers has offset a downward spiral not just for financial stocks, but for stocks in general. The Dow Jones dropped 777 points today, creating a historical record.
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As the government begins to unleash a highly criticized bailout plan for Wall Street’s toxic mortgage backed assets, it is worth taking a step back to understand how the problem actually arose.
Investing In Real EstateIt all started with real estate investing which involves the purchase, ownership and sale of real estate for profit. Real estate is an asset form with limited liquidity relative to other investments, it is also capital intensive (although capital may be gained through mortgage leverage) and is highly cash flow dependent. The primary cause of investment failure for real estate is that the investor goes into negative cash flow for a period of time that is not sustainable, often forcing them to resell the property at a loss or go into insolvency.
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Sarah Lozanova in Energy 737 days ago
As the largest consumer and small business bank, BofA (NYSE: BAC) can have a major positive or negative impact on the environment. Since March, 2007, the bank has taken on a $20 billion initiative to “encourage environmentally friendly business activity” over the next decade. Applauded by some and criticized by others, just how green is… Read More…
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