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...charge-off rate on credit-card defaults could skyrocket to 10% in 2009 - double the average of 5% over the past 10 years - reaching $18.6 billion in the first quarter and $96 billion by the end of next year, predicts an October report from Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, an investment-research firm. "A 10% [charge-off] rate would be unprecedented," says Laura Nishikawa, an Innovest analyst. (Read "Fannie and Freddie Offer New Plan to Help Homeowners...
...card industry's current problems have been years in the making. Over the past decade, U.S. households have been loading up on debt, with credit-card balances rising 75% since 1999. Yet families' real wages have increased only slightly - by just 4% during that same time period, according to Innovest. The savings rate has similarly declined relative to credit-card balances. Meanwhile, home equity, the biggest source of wealth for most families, has been drained by the mortgage crisis. "There isn't a cushion for anyone who has a bump in the road," says Levitin. "Credit cards are often...
Frank Dixon, whose company Innovest strives to create a “green” Moody’s to measure the social and environmental impact of business, saw tremendous potential for market mechanisms which incorporate externalities into business models. He challenged businesses to look beyond dollars and cents when defining their bottom line, urging Americans to use “societal wellness” as a broader measure of success...
...investors who want independent analysis of corporate environmental performance, Innovest, a research firm based in New York City, assigns bond-style ratings. A report on the automotive industry gave high marks (AAA) to Toyota and Honda for their work in setting environmental standards for their factories--and their suppliers. Porsche (CCC) trailed all 13 competitors that Innovest studied, partly because of a poor showing on fuel-economy standards...
...Innovest's ratings are of particular interest to a growing class of fund managers, including pioneers Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments and Reto Ringger of Sustainable Asset Management, who limit their investments to companies that meet certain environmental and social criteria. Assets in U.S. socially screened funds surpassed $2 trillion last year, a 36% increase since 1999 and a rate of growth 1.5 times as fast as the average of other professionally managed U.S. funds, according to a Social Investment Forum study...
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