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...November, Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 signed into law a targeted divestment bill aimed at putting pressure on the Sudanese government to cease the genocide in Darfur. In September, students marched through Harvard Square to urge the passage of a bill that would stop public pension funds from investing in companies that enable the military junta in Myanmar. These advocates apparently believe that they can make a difference by convincing financial institutions to stop investing in companies such as PetroChina and Chevron, which are linked to atrocities around the world. There is no question that...
Ostensibly, Putin has made a bold decision. Medvedev is known as an economic liberal. Since being appointed as First Deputy Prime Minister in November 2005, he has held the portfolio of "national programs." His job was to bring dynamism to the government's welfare initiatives in housing, pension payments, health care and agriculture. In the 1990s there was a shocking deterioration in the living conditions of most Russians, dragging nearly a third of them below the poverty level. The rise in prices on the world's petrochemical market gave ministers an opportunity to improve the situation, and Medvedev has impressed...
...gone from being the exclusive domain of some clean-tech funds to being a demand of major investors," says Nick Robins, head of the HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence. Indeed, buyers today have their pick of hedge funds that focus on rapid-fire trading to corporate pension funds that are 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...
...public their annual reports, to offer detailed descriptions of their investment philosophies, and to provide assurances that good returns - and not murky foreign-policy objectives - are what's driving them. In other words, it wants the new kids on the block to be more like Norway. Oslo's Government Pension Fund - International, which invests up to 60% of its $353 billion under management in equities, has money in 3,500 companies around the world, including stakes in Google and General Electric. But it owns no more than 1.5% in any single company, and spells out all its investments...
...traditional apprenticeship for presidential candidates of Ebrard's leftist Democratic Revolution Party. But after a year in office, Ebrard shows no sign of becoming his party's anointed champion. He is constantly overshadowed by his mentor and predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who gained immense popularity with pension schemes for the poor and construction projects for the middle class. Lopez Obrador lost the 2006 presidential race to conservative Felipe Calderon by less than 0.5 percent of the vote in an election that was decided in the courts. The charismatic silver-haired leftist claims he was robbed, and calls himself "Mexico...