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...What this means is that divestment merely transfers the profits gained from one investor to another. As long as someone is willing to invest in a given company, no divestment will have any effect. Therefore, divestment campaigns only hurt the investors they go after, such as Harvard’s endowment or Cambridge’s pension fund, and cannot cause real change. This conclusion is backed up by empirical studies. An August study from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College surveyed the academic literature and found that such “social investing?...
Eric Bettelheim is executive chairman of Sustainable Forestry Management Limited, an ethical investor in forests
...Starting up an Internet company required relatively low levels of capital - at least before you started buying your employees massage chairs - and dangled the possibility of a quick and lucrative payoff. Cracking the energy sector, with its powerful incumbent companies and forbiddingly high capital costs, requires a more patient investor. "There may be some VCs willing to finance a $100 million project plant, but most can't," says Howard Berke, a veteran tech entrepreneur and co-founder of the solar company Konarka. "It could mean a longer [wait] for returns than what early-stage venture capitalists are accustomed...
...clean-tech sector was absorbing 11% of all venture capital in North America and Europe. Investors started knocking on Todaro's door, and they haven't stopped since. "We went from hat in hand to not being able to return investor calls," Todaro says. The company won millions in financing, and has just announced a deal with a firm called Green Earth Fuels to develop 100 million gallons (380 million L) of biodiesel by 2010. Says Richard Kaufman, CEO of the international sustainable investment company Good Energies: "There is just a wall of money out there...
...strong today, could rapidly lose momentum if oil prices were to drop significantly, and it hasn't escaped notice that clean tech has yet to produce a bank-breaking success like Netscape, which made Kleiner Perkins a fortune. "Everybody with a dollar thinks they're a clean-tech investor now," says Foundation Capital's Grosser. "A ton of people could lose a lot of money on solar or biofuels." But defenders point out that the burgeoning energy needs of China and India mean that oil prices are unlikely to fall to previous levels, while the political push...