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Investment-research firm KLD Research & Analytics launched a climate-change index in 2005. This year the big investment banks have piled in, too. JP Morgan introduced an index in February comprised of bonds from firms with limited vulnerability to global warming. ABN Amro launched a Climate Change and Environment Index in March, tracking stocks in businesses like emissions reduction and water filtration. In April, UBS introduced a global-warming futures index based on the weather in 15 U.S. cities. Merrill Lynch launched an energy-efficiency index in July. And in September HSBC unveiled what it claims is the largest climate...
...required to put some portion of their money in socially responsible investments. Meanwhile, a slew of new mutual funds is selling individual investors on the heady growth prospects of companies in areas like cleaner energy or environmentally friendly consumer products. HSBC has tracked back its benchmark climate-change index to 2004, and claims it would have outperformed the MSCI World Index by about 70% - evidence that, so far at least, there has been plenty of opportunity to profit from environmental peril...
...second, larger study in the NEJM came to similar conclusions. By comparing the childhood medical records and adulthood hospital records of 276,835 Danish citizens born between 1930 and 1976, researchers found a distinct correlation between higher childhood body mass index (BMI) - the ratio between height and weight that is the standard for defining obesity - and a greater risk of future heart disease and heart disease-related death. According to the authors, it is the first study to conclusively link excess weight in childhood and health problems later on. What's more, the data showed that the correlation is linear...
...government agency with stakes in several of China's biggest state-run banks and brokerages, and will reportedly plunk another $66 billion into Agricultural Bank of China. To the extent CIC looks for investments abroad, its Chairman Lou Jiwei said in a late November speech, it will stick to index funds - equities linked to the performance of entire markets, not individual companies...
...individual investors to participate in Forex is to be sure to have a significant share of assets allocated to overseas stock and bond investments, particularly in Asia," says Zandi. "For the average investor wanting to play on the dollar falling, it would make more sense to invest in an index fund in [an overseas stock market]. Then you might get a kick from the falling dollar and the stock market of that country," says Skiff...