Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

As part of our commitment to protecting biodiversity and ecosystems, we have continued our efforts in tackling deforestation, particularly in the production of palm oil.

T. Rowe Price recently released the survey – Parents, Kids, & Money, which surveyed more than 1,000 parents as well as their children between the ages of 8 to 14. This survey revealed that most parents actually want to overextend their money and spending in order to get their children what they want for gifts and holiday presents.

Let’s get real – individual investors have no sway in the public markets. The place where individual investors can have the most impact – by far – is in providing direct growth capital to private companies and social enterprises.

Given the new political landscape, what lies ahead for sustainable investing? How does our industry continue to move forward?

The exclusion of the poor from participating in, and getting access to, opportunities and activities is a major dimension of poverty that needs to be recognised and addressed. As allocators of capital, we believe that social inclusion considerations must be an integral component of our investment and ownership decisions.

Leaders often struggle to understand which choices are best when it comes to making investments in sustainability. One way to ease this struggle is to enable a stronger business case development and associated analyses of both tangible and intangible benefits connected to these investments. In response to this challenge, FEMSA Foundation and Antea Group founded the Monetization Working Group (MWG) in March 2014.

It’s important to know where your paper comes from, and we urge customers to understand how their choices benefit not just our company, but entire communities.

We have coined the phrase “Dark Data,” to describe information on corporate sustainability that exists, but cannot normally be seen and evaluated. Dark Data is exchanged privately as part of supply chain, certification, and regulatory interactions. As such, it forms an important part of how companies interact with their environment.

Can a bank be profitable in the long-term and serve as a regenerative change agent? Capital Institute's first documentary, "A Year in the Life of First Green Bank," looks at one community banker's story.