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02-19-10
Forest Carbon Group AG Purchases 29.9% of ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd.
ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: ESR) (the "Company" or "ERA"), is pleased to announce that the private placement previously announced, October 14th 2009, closed on February 17th 2010. The private placement consisted of 7,360,000 common shares at a price of CAD$0.75 per...
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02-17-10
American Funds Sells PetroChina After Shareholder Meeting
Following a well-publicized shareholder vote on genocide-free investing on November 24, American Funds has now become the largest mutual fund company to divest its holdings in PetroChina. A recent posting on the company's website shows that American Funds sold virtually all ...
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02-10-10
BSR's Financial Services Practice Doubles, Industry Focuses on Corporate Responsibility
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...
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02-09-10
Study: 65 Percent Of Investment Strategies Have Shorter Investment Horizons Than Intended
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...
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01-28-10
Johnson Controls named to new Maplecroft Climate Innovation Indexes on Bloomberg
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...
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01-25-10
ACCION Gets Green Light from Brazil’s President to Launch New Microfinance Institution in Amazonas
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 ...
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01-22-10
InniSofts.com Provides Free Forex Trading Signals for Full Trading Transparency
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...
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01-21-10
Portfolio 21’s Top 10 ‘Green’ Companies for 2010
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...
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01-14-10
CARS™ Rates Five CDFIs In The Fourth Quarter And Launches New Annual Subscription Option For 2010
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...
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01-13-10
ACCION Announces $5.8 Million Project to Develop Savings Account Products for the Poor in Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador
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...
