tailieunhanh - The EIRIS Green & Ethical Funds Directory

A recent OECD report on infrastructure (see OECD 2011b) notes that in order to promote infrastructure investment by pension funds, a better alignment of interests between pension funds and the infrastructure industry is required in terms of: fees (which are too high); the structure of funds (which are too concentrated); and the investment horizon (which is too short). Improvements on these fronts would also help improve the deal flow into green projects. As discussed, it is only through providing stable investments via low risk instruments that the broad universe of pension assets will be tapped. In addition to incentives, governments. | January 2008 The EIRIS Green Ethical Funds Directory About EIRIS EIRIS is a leading global provider of independent research into the social environmental and ethical performance of companies. EIRIS a UK based organisation with an office in the USA and a representative office in Japan and its international research partners together have a wealth of experience in the field of socially responsible investment SRI research. EIRIS provides comprehensive research of nearly 3 000 companies in Europe North America and Asia Pacific. Wholly-owned subsidiary of a charitable Foundation dedicated to promoting responsible investment Independent research covering over 60 different social environmental and ethical areas on approximately 3000 companies globally 15 years experience of delivering unbiased expert advice on ethical investment products to the financial adviser community Research areas include environmental human rights and supply chain issues corporate governance international conventions and stakeholder issues A not-for-profit organisation EIRIS concentrates purely on ethical research and does not offer financial advice of investment management services. More than 100 mutual funds banks institutional investors pension funds private clients charities and individual investors currently use our services. Many clients make use of our software Ethical Portfolio Manager EPM . This makes available extensive and easily-managed information on European North American and Asia-Pacific companies. Over 700 financial advisers now subscribe to EIRIS services which include the EIRIS Guide to Ethical Funds a practical guide to help financial advisers select ethical funds for their clients the IFA bulletin a monthly round-up of news of interest to the ethical financial adviser and the IFA database a national database of financial advisers able to offer ethical investment . Contact for further details of how to subscribe to these services. Copyright EIRIS January