Conference Spotlight: ESG Investing Track Join us at these breakout sessions highlighting ESG investing! The Alphabet Soup in ESG Investing CDP, GRI, SASB, ESG, what does it all mean when you are looking at evaluating a company? CDP gathers environmental data. GRI produces a reporting framework. SASB’s standards inform on …
Accounting & Sustainability: Future-proofing the CFO
Daily News Alert 01.08.13 2013: Life on the Edge of the Sustainability Cliff The Great Recession shook loose the pillars of trust between the public, investment community and companies, particularly among the millennial generation, which increasingly believes that Wall Street no longer serves Main Street and companies care more about …
Voting for TBLI ESG Leaders Awards 2012 Now Open
Voting for TBLI ESG Leaders Awards 2012 Now Open Congratulations to Hazel Henderson and her nomination for one of the TBLI ESG Leaders Awards 2012. Five awards will be handed out to those in the industry who have excelled in their dedication to ESG and IMPACT Investing (in Europe and …
Financial Statesmanship for a New Economy
Financial Statesmanship for a New Economy by John Fullerton Reactions to departing Goldman derivatives salesman Greg Smith’s “Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs,” which appeared as an op-ed in the NY Times last week, have ranged from the hyperbolic — Robert Reich’s “If you took the greed out of Wall …
More Good Advice from Thornton Parker
You may be interested in my comments on the proposed Pension Accounting and Financial Reporting by Employers standard being proposed by the Government Accounting Standards Board. Tip Parker Director of Research and Technical Activities Government Accounting Standards Board Project No. 34 director@gasb.org Dear Director: The Plain Language Supplement for Pension …