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November 2008 (subscribers only) News: The UK's plays for Gulf green funds; Barrack Obama advised to make his infrastructure "bank" green; The inside track on a £4.25m fund for social entrepreneurs; and Aviva's plan to push UNPRI. Analysis: insight in to why XBRL might be the answer to survey fatigue and analyisis of the pioneering role being played by older foundations in mission-related investment compared to the new breed of "Philanthrocapitalists".
October 2008 (£6.50) News: Social banks ride out the credit storm; Few UK managers focus on responsible investment; Survey reveals shades of global greener; UN-backed academic network goes live; Opinion: Ann Ellis of Cowen Asset managment argues pension funds can see climate change as both an asset class and an investment policy.
September 2008 (£6.50) News: UN PRI principles guide mandate choice; Xcel "breakthrough" queried; Cal pension funds play down tobacco reversal; Fraudsters target responsible investors; Insurance companies ignoring climate risk; Opinion: Ray Cheung of the World Resources Institute examines China's SRI potential.
July 2008 (£6.50) News: Venture funds targetting social enterprise; Both sides claim victory in Tesco vote; French bank pioneers eco-labling; Research focus: Profile of OpenSRI, a collaborative corporate responsibility rating system.
June 2008 (£6.50) News: The first responsible fund in east Europe; A hitch in Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Tesco resolution plans; A failure to stop shareholder resolutions at ExxonMobil; Research focus: Mission-connected investing - Sargon Nissan of the New Economics Foundation says it should form a new pillar of foundations' investment. Opinion: Bart Slob, of SOMO, argues that investors should persuade companies to start lobbying more responsibly.
April 2008 (£6.50) News: Arms companies work torwards unified bribery code; African debt fund seeks $200m; $34 billion French pension fund takes further step in its strategy of integrating responsibility; An exchange launches allowing investors to share voting responsibilities. Opinion: Private equity investors are recognising that going green pays off; Reportage: A special report from an Albanian village struck by a blast from a dubious weapons decommissioning deal.
March 2008 (£6.50) News: Environmental leaders fund launch, US investors claim climate change victory, PGGM microfinance pledge, FTSE launches "terror free" index Research focus: Uranium mining - boomtime for nuclear industry suppliers.
January 2008 (£6.50) News: The underpinnings of the US bank carbon pledge, UK gets first stand-alone sustainability VC, UNPRI proposed for low-income pensions. Feature: The search for credibility - survey of CR reporting. Inbox: A sustainable energy analyst comments on Google's greenery.
December 2007 (£6.50) News: Nordic hedge fund growing global, Gore vehicle to target venture capital, Long-short hedge fund of funds to launch, FairPensions chief homeward bound, What's behind Google's search for coal alternatives Feature: Forestry figures needed.
November 2007 (£6.50) News: Final countdown for Sakhalin decision, Wind co-ops offer shares Features: Clear Profit '07 - Centre stage given over to key issues, Microcredit bank shows the way in Kosovo.
September 2007 (£6.50) News: A new platform for local currency development lenders, scrutiny for human rights impact of "status quo" investment clauses, UK Export Credit Guarantee Department denies secret pledge to Sakhalin 2, CalSTRS raises SRI funds to $500m. Analysis:Corporate responsibility and the law, Professor Karin Buhmann explores the relationship.
August 2007 (£6.50) News: US creates safe haven for "anti-terror" investors, English church rejects public blacklist, online revamp for assurance standard, AXA to avoid cluster bombs Analysis: Professor Paul Ali argues that green hedge funds must be prudent in exercising their sustainability policies.
25 May 2007 (£6.50) News: A UN renewables fund for east Europe; Citi's 'under-represented' green energy business; Triodos bank's public offering;'Slow money' in the West Country; An EU climate bond issue. Analysis: Dan Siddy, former head of the International Finance Corporation's sustainable markets facility, outlines the pivotal role of investors in encouraging India's sustainability. Opinion: Blake Goud, executive director of the Institute for Halal Investing, argues that the financial services industry should explore the practicalities of creating Islamic sovereign bonds linked to GDP growth.
2 May 2007 (£6.50) News: Cluster bomb makers dumped by Dutch pension funds; IFC backing triggers $80m emerging market fundraising; US eco fund of hedge funds aims for July 1st launch; UK council pension funds take retailer to task on protecting Chinese labour conditions; Trustees advised to itemise beliefs for long term gain. Opinion: Price fixing in the form of feed in tariffs are a proven way to achieve the necessary accelerated development of renewable energy argues Miguel Mendonca of the World Future Council.
26 March 2007 (£6.50) News: Banks defy Samling critics; New Parliamentary and industry committees investigate private equity responsibility; CRE responsibility exchange's new plans; Medicine access strategy index initiated; New UK green hedge fund launches. Plus concise bulletins on other news and research. Opinion: The influence of large US custodian banks on the EU's attempt to harmonise the exercise of shareholder right poses a threat to the integrity of European capital, argues Pierre-Henry Leroy, CEO of proxy voting service Proxinvest.
February 2007 (£6.50) News: Dutch microfinance doubles; new effort to standardise the financial analysis of climate change, UN tries to help encourage corporate responsibility in EU accession countries, Jupiter mulls the launch of a green hedge fund, news in brief, research releases. Features: In-depth interview with Jonathan Djanogly MP, mastermind of the UK Conservative party's plan to embrace corporate responsibility; Triodos bank's James Vacarro outlines his vision of 'conscious' banking.
December 2006 (£3.50) News: The first publicly launched UK clean energy hedge fund, first steps taken to create a 'social equity exchange', UN founds property investment sustainability study group, Henderson's Rob Lake moves to Dutch state pension fund, news in brief, research releases. Feature: Interview with David Pitt Watson non-executive director of Hermes Focus Asset Management and co-author of 'The New Capitalists'.
November 2006 (£3.50) News: $100 billion boost for microcredit, IFC names governance research winners in Asia, online trustee communication platform planned, arms companies try to defuse cluster bomb claims, news in brief, research releases. Feature: a report on some of the key talking points at Clear Profit's 2006 event, 'Corporate responsibility and democracy'.
October 2006 (free sample)
August 2006 (£3.50) News: Legal challenge to US Sudan divestment, BBC fund focuses responsibility, SRI pioneer to remove 'sin' screens, low carbon funds AIM for £160m, CRE woes exaggerated, news in brief, report releases. Feature: Companies must be ready to respond to capital market campaigners, argues Steve Waygood.
June 2006 (£3.50) News: Research fuels Darfur divestment debate, Gerrard axes ethical unit, Oxford University opts for responsible investment, carbon footprints of funds estimated, news in brief, research releases. Feature: A look at the growing enthusiasm for clean coal.
April 2006 (£3.50) News: $4 trillion put behind UN principles, UK Co-operative Bank partially rejects World Bank bonds, directors' financial duty remains paramount, F&C takes plural approach to proxy research, US affordable housing fund launches, news in brief, research releases. Feature: An interview with George Dallas head of governance assessment services at Standard & Poor's, who explains the company's financial risk led approach to corporate responsibility.
March 2006 (£3.50) News: Equator project finance principles renewed, UK Chancellor Gordon Brown launches £30m early stage sustainability fund, Islamic start-up funds initiated in London and the North West, advisors block CoE Caterpillar divestment, Australian farmers to harvest green deposit, UK environment agency to tender pension portfolio, UN responsible investment principles near, news in brief, research releases. Features: UK real estate investment trusts (REITs) should be made available to social enterprises and charities, an interview with FTSE4Good chief Will Oulton.

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