Shareholder eco-activism takes root in Australia

Australian Ethical Investments has announced plans to invest in ethically dubious energy firms with the aim of changing their business practices through shareholder activism.
The Climate Advocacy Fund (CAF), launched today, will invest in big polluters with the aim of using shareholder influence to encourage firms to green themselves up.
Companies will urged to rethink how they [...]

Wall Street Faces Higher Costs, Fewer Investments

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Higher costs and fewer sources of profits: Welcome to Wall Street’s new world.Congress’s just-finished bill to reshape the financial system focuses most of its new measures on the handful of American titans that have come to dominate the U.S. financial world. Although carrying out much of the bill’s thrust is left [...]

Finance, Credit, Investments-modern Interpretation

Scientific works in the theories of finances and credit, according to the specification of the research object, are characterized to be many-sided and many-leveled.
The definition of totality of the economical relations formed in the process of formation, distribution and usage of finances, as money sources is widely spread. For example, in “the general theory of [...]