Finance

BSR's financial services practice more than doubled in the past year, underscoring a growing industry trend toward more responsible business strategies that increase access to financi...

Some active equity fund managers have higher portfolio turnover rates than they themselves claim, a new study finds. Nearly two-thirds of institutional investor-focused investment strategies exceeded their expected turnover from June 2006 through June 2009. Of these strate...

Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) today announced its inclusion in two new Maplecroft Climate Innovation Indexes (Maplecroft CIIs) that identify top performers in climate-related innovation and carbon management. The Maplecroft CIIs launched in January 2010 on the BLOOMBERG PROFE...

ACCION® International, a pioneer and leader in global microfinance, announced today that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has approved its application to establish ACCION Microfinanças, a new microfinance organization in the state of Amazonas in Brazil's remote ...

InniSofts.com, a Forex trading company developed by Winsor A.G.A. Hoang of Winsor Global Financial Inc. in Canada, starts providing free Forex trading signals based on their automated Forex robots for full trading transparency. InniSofts.com has five fully functional Forex e...

Global mutual fund Portfolio 21 (PORTX) today announced its Top 10 Green Companies. For the past 10 years, Portfolio 21 has searched the world and invested only in companies with an explicit commitment to environmental business practices, such as designing ecologically super...

Five community development financial institutions (CDFIs) from across the United States were rated by the CDFI Assessment and Ratings System (CARS™) in the fourth quarter of 2009. CARS™ released 21 ratings during 2009, with five more in process that will be released during t...

ACCION® International, a pioneer and leader in global microfinance, today announced that it has received a three-year grant of $5.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to introduce savings account products to under-banked populations in Bolivia, Colombia and...

Save the date for a compelling new conference that brings promising strategies from the global stage about how we can create and finance effective change organizations. "Delivering social change at scale will require more capital than philanthropy and public resources can p...

Although there is overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is underway and governments are imposing regulations to curb greenhouse gases, the vast majority of the world's largest investment managers are not factoring climate-related trends into their short- and ...