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		<title>Economic Crisis Drives Human Trafficking: Global Business, Investors Must be Part of the Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Effgen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Funds recently published a two-part article on corporate responsibility for fighting human trafficking and forced labor, especially commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC).  Reporter Robert Kropp writes that corporations have an important role to play in the prevention of child sex tourism, but American companies appear reluctant to act: of 623 global signatories [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Economic Crisis Drives Human Trafficking: Global Business, Investors Must be Part of the Solution", url: "http://blog.kld.com/engagement/economic-crisis-drives-human-trafficking-global-business-investors-must-be-part-of-the-solution/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>“I’ve Staked my Career on This”: Adam Seitchik on Responsible Investing by Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Responsible Investor reported that Adam Seitchik, former CIO of Trillium Asset Management, is joining London-based Auriel Capital Management. RI’s Hugh Wheelan wrote that in hiring Mr. Seitchik, Auriel “is joining a growing number of hedge funds building strategies in the responsible investment space.”
Why are absolute return managers becoming more interested in environmental, social [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "“I’ve Staked my Career on This”: Adam Seitchik on Responsible Investing by Hedge Funds", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/%e2%80%9ci%e2%80%99ve-staked-my-career-on-this%e2%80%9d-adam-seitchik-on-responsible-investing-by-hedge-funds/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Risks of Climate Change are Already Material: New Ceres/EDF Study Calls for SEC to Mandate Better Disclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Obama Administration seeks to overhaul financial regulation, a multi-trillion-dollar coalition of investors has argued that the government should require corporate disclosure of climate change-related risks. Climate Risk Disclosure in SEC Filings – a deceptively modest title – calls for replacing the current hodgepodge of voluntary disclosure with a federally mandated reporting regime.
Ceres, the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Risks of Climate Change are Already Material: New Ceres/EDF Study Calls for SEC to Mandate Better Disclosure", url: "http://blog.kld.com/climate-change/the-risks-of-climate-change-are-already-material-new-ceresedf-study-calls-for-sec-to-mandate-better-disclosure/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Help Us Make Boards Work for Shareholders: Nell Minow Testifies Before Congress on Executive Compensation</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/kld/help-us-make-boards-work-for-shareholders-nell-minow-testifies-before-congress-on-executive-compensation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Executive pay practices have recently drawn scrutiny from both Congress and the Obama Administration. Last week, Nell Minow of The Corporate Library testified before the US Committee on Financial Services on “Compensation Structure and Systemic Risk.”
In her June 11 testimony, as in her previous work, Ms. Minow emphasized that boards of directors bear ultimate responsibility [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Help Us Make Boards Work for Shareholders: Nell Minow Testifies Before Congress on Executive Compensation", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/help-us-make-boards-work-for-shareholders-nell-minow-testifies-before-congress-on-executive-compensation/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Fiduciary Duties &#038; What Trustees May Invest in: From 1744 to Today</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/kld/fiduciary-duties-what-trustees-may-invest-in-from-1744-to-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Madoff Madness and the Banking Crisis: At one extreme, trustees must dodge sociopathic fraudsters; on the other, they must avoid the hubris of “the smartest guys in the room.”
Modern Portfolio Theory and the legal thinking it’s influenced address the problem by means of risk analysis and diversification.  This approach has limits, as Investments [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Fiduciary Duties &#038; What Trustees May Invest in: From 1744 to Today", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/fiduciary-duties-what-trustees-may-invest-in-from-1744-to-today/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>A Gone Green Generation or a Green Gone Generation?</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/engagement/a-gone-green-generation-or-a-green-gone-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Miller-McCune is a new magazine whose tagline is “Turning Research into Solutions.” On its website, it reports on a 30-year study of green attitudes among adolescents.  The results are sobering.
 &#8220;A research team led by Laura Wray-Lake of the Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies examined data from the &#8216;Monitoring [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Gone Green Generation or a Green Gone Generation?", url: "http://blog.kld.com/engagement/a-gone-green-generation-or-a-green-gone-generation/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Disclose Carbon Emissions by Companies, Not Just Facilities: Social Investment Forum on new EPA Disclosure Rules</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/kld/disclose-carbon-emissions-by-companies-not-just-facilities-social-investment-forum-on-new-epa-disclosure-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In May, the Obama Administration announced new fuel economy standards for cars sold in the US. According to activist Daniel Becker, as quoted in the New York Times, “This is the single biggest step the American government has ever taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions.”
More big steps are to come. The EPA has been soliciting [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Disclose Carbon Emissions by Companies, Not Just Facilities: Social Investment Forum on new EPA Disclosure Rules", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/disclose-carbon-emissions-by-companies-not-just-facilities-social-investment-forum-on-new-epa-disclosure-rules/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Pension Trustees Must Prepare For Climate Change: New Study from UNPRI</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/kld/pension-trustees-must-prepare-for-climate-change-new-study-from-unpri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 26, Responsible Investor reported on a new study calling for pension funds to better prepare for climate change. Pension trustees may even have a fiduciary duty to account for climate-related risk, according to study authors Craig Mackenzie and Francisco Ascui of the University of Edinburgh Business School.
Investor Leadership on Climate Change, written on [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pension Trustees Must Prepare For Climate Change: New Study from UNPRI", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/pension-trustees-must-prepare-for-climate-change-new-study-from-unpri/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Drucker on the GM Pension Plan (1976), and Questions for Today</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/management/peter-drucker-on-the-gm-pension-plan-1976-and-questions-for-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Few professors or pundits have worn the title of guru better than Peter Drucker.  Here is an excerpt from his 1976 book, The Pension Fund Revolution, on the revolutionary General Motors Pension Plan of 1950: 
“The union [the United Auto Workers] feared, with good reason as subsequent events have proven, that the pension fund [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Peter Drucker on the GM Pension Plan (1976), and Questions for Today", url: "http://blog.kld.com/management/peter-drucker-on-the-gm-pension-plan-1976-and-questions-for-today/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability Reporting in Emerging Markets: A Progress Report</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/kld/sustainability-reporting-in-emerging-markets-a-progress-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 17:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marianne Ajayi and Celeste Cole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In March 2009, KLD Consulting sought to identify which emerging-market nations were improving their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure.  Through a review of Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) data, the lead researchers noted efforts by emerging-market companies to comply with GRI’s reporting guidelines. 
Brazil, South Korea, South Africa, India, and Chile all made significant [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sustainability Reporting in Emerging Markets: A Progress Report", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/sustainability-reporting-in-emerging-markets-a-progress-report/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>76% of Voters Don’t Know that Cap and Trade Involves the Environment: New Rasmussen Poll</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/kld/76-of-voters-don%e2%80%99t-know-that-cap-and-trade-involves-the-environment-new-rasmussen-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 16:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Only 24% of voters know that “cap and trade” describes an environmental policy proposal, according to a new Rasmussen poll. Matthew Yglesias at ThinkProgress cited the results this week, and also noted that 46% of respondents guessed that cap and trade involves Wall Street regulation or health care.
The KLD Blog is not typically concerned with [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "76% of Voters Don’t Know that Cap and Trade Involves the Environment: New Rasmussen Poll", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/76-of-voters-don%e2%80%99t-know-that-cap-and-trade-involves-the-environment-new-rasmussen-poll/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Say on Pay, and More: Green America’s New Hub for Proxy Voting</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/kld/say-on-pay-and-more-green-america%e2%80%99s-new-hub-for-proxy-voting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 14:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As noted by Robert Kropp at Social Funds, 2009 is witnessing a dramatic increase in “say on pay” shareholder resolutions. He gives some credit for this to “public outrage” over executive compensation levels during a worldwide recession. Shareholder engagement is also driven by sustainable and socially responsible investment (SRI) advocates, who help investors work together [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Say on Pay, and More: Green America’s New Hub for Proxy Voting", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/say-on-pay-and-more-green-america%e2%80%99s-new-hub-for-proxy-voting/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Investors Should Look Beyond the Letter of the Law, Says Norway Fund’s Ethics Chair</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/sustainability-reporting/investors-should-look-beyond-the-letter-of-the-law-says-norway-fund%e2%80%99s-ethics-chair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 14:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The British journal Responsible Investor has published an interview with Gro Nystuen, chair of the Norwegian state investment fund’s Council of Ethics. Norway’s government is a leading advocate and practitioner of sustainable/socially responsible investing (SRI). 
Ms. Nystuen speaks frankly about how the Norwegian state pension fund puts its good intentions into practice. “The Council consists [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Investors Should Look Beyond the Letter of the Law, Says Norway Fund’s Ethics Chair", url: "http://blog.kld.com/sustainability-reporting/investors-should-look-beyond-the-letter-of-the-law-says-norway-fund%e2%80%99s-ethics-chair/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Investors, NGOs Seek to Temper Global Appetite for “Blood Minerals”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 19:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The mining and refining of metal is an industry with ancient roots, and it remains essential to the global economy.  Even supposedly “clean” industries like electronics depend on mining and smelting, as gold, tin and other metals are found in cell phones, computers and other ubiquitous consumer products.
Industrial mining can have a dramatic impact [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Investors, NGOs Seek to Temper Global Appetite for “Blood Minerals”", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/investors-ngos-seek-to-temper-global-appetite-for-%e2%80%9cblood-minerals%e2%80%9d/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Some Carbon Footprints are More Equal than Others: Trucost Studies Carbon Intensity of Mutual Funds</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/kld/some-carbon-footprints-are-more-equal-than-others-trucost-studies-carbon-intensity-of-mutual-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Carbon Counts USA, a new report from research firm (and KLD partner) Trucost, studies the “carbon intensity” of 91 major mutual funds. Trucost found wide variation in funds’ carbon footprint, as the highest-carbon fund they studied was 38 times as carbon-intensive as the best performer.
Perhaps due to the Obama Administration’s stated commitment to a national [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Some Carbon Footprints are More Equal than Others: Trucost Studies Carbon Intensity of Mutual Funds", url: "http://blog.kld.com/kld/some-carbon-footprints-are-more-equal-than-others-trucost-studies-carbon-intensity-of-mutual-funds/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Children’s Rights and the Global Supply Chain: Norway Studies Corporate Child Labor Practices</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/engagement/children%e2%80%99s-rights-and-the-global-supply-chain-norway-studies-corporate-child-labor-practices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Effgen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As the world’s economy has become more deeply integrated, some investors have sought to hold companies responsible for labor practices throughout their global supply chain. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages pension funds for the government of Norway, released a report in March on corporate initiatives to fight exploitation of child labor. The Sector [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Children’s Rights and the Global Supply Chain: Norway Studies Corporate Child Labor Practices", url: "http://blog.kld.com/engagement/children%e2%80%99s-rights-and-the-global-supply-chain-norway-studies-corporate-child-labor-practices/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Ecological Economics &#038; Macroeconomics: A Convergence?</title>
		<link>http://blog.kld.com/sustainability-reporting/ecological-economics-macroeconomics-a-convergence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible that traditional macroeconomics and ecological economics (or sustainability theory) are converging?
Two articles published Sunday morning, April 12, taken together, suggest to me that these fields share an emerging understanding of debt and its essential elements: collateral and leverage.  Through these lenses, debt’s charge on the future is coming to be understood [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ecological Economics &#038; Macroeconomics: A Convergence?", url: "http://blog.kld.com/sustainability-reporting/ecological-economics-macroeconomics-a-convergence/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Keynes (1936) on Americans &#038; Investments: Condemned to Fulfill the Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Given what we now know about the effects of finance economics models on the markets – that they create portfolios that mimic each other – Keynes’ observations in his General Theory on Americans and how they invest seems strangely prophetic:
&#8220;Even outside the field of finance, Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Keynes (1936) on Americans &#038; Investments: Condemned to Fulfill the Past", url: "http://blog.kld.com/investments/keynes-1936-on-americans-investments-condemned-to-fulfill-the-past/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Why Read Stories on Financial Services Fraudsters and Thieves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kinder</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why read the ever-growing pile of stories of tricksters and con men (and women) in our industry?
Schadenfreude – a delightful German word meaning pleasure from others’ misery, especially of those more rich, famous, etc. than you – is probably why readers devour these stories.  But financial services professionals should be reading them for the [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Why Read Stories on Financial Services Fraudsters and Thieves?", url: "http://blog.kld.com/investments/why-read-stories-on-financial-services-fraudsters-and-thieves/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Social Investment Forum Calls for Global Regulatory Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Petrillo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Global financial regulatory reform is a priority at this week’s G-20 summit in London. What Bloomberg calls “an effort to rewrite the rules of capitalism” was called a “non-negotiable goal” by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Prime Minister Angela Merkel.
This is welcome news for investors represented by the Social Investment Forum (SIF), which has [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Social Investment Forum Calls for Global Regulatory Reform", url: "http://blog.kld.com/sec/social-investment-forum-calls-for-global-regulatory-reform/" });</script>]]></description>
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