Author Series
Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term
Performance
Evolving out of the ethical, socially responsible investment (SRI)
and responsible investment waves, sustainable investment involves the
conscious integration of environmental, social and governance factors
into strategies for generating long-term financial returns. Billions of
dollars, pounds, euro, and yen are being managed with a view toward
these factors, and both the current worldwide financial crisis and
the specter of global warming further highlight the imperative for
patterns of finance and investment that are truly oriented toward
long-term value creation, rather than a short-term focus that has
arguably led to recent breakdowns in the capital markets.
Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term Performance
is a new book written by international leaders in the field that
thoroughly explains sustainable investment (history, evolution and
mainstreaming); how to select sustainable companies and investments
(screening criteria, indices, and indicators); the changing corporate
landscape towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) and
environmental sustainability; investment analysis and performance, and
changes in capital markets.
Join Sustainable Investing co-editor/author Cary
Krosinsky and chapter contributor Stephen Viederman as they discuss
their conclusion that the best way to generate risk-adjusted
returns in the 21st century is to fully incorporate long-term
environmental, social, and economic trends into investment and ownership
decision-making. Whether motivated by personal values or by the quest
for superior returns, investors can explore risk mitigation and upside
opportunities by leading the front-end of the sustainability curve.
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DATE:
Thursday, February 26, 2009
TIME:
5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m. | Networking and Book Signing
6:15 p.m.–7:45 p.m. | Presentation
LOCATION:
NYSSA
1177 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor
(between 45th and 46th Streets), NYC (Directions)
Photo ID required for access to the building.
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SPEAKERS:
Cary Krosinsky, Co-Editor/Author
Stephen Viederman, Chapter Contributor
REGISTRATION/FEES:
Members Free | Nonmembers $20
REGISTRATION DEADLINE:
Monday, February 23, 2009
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If you would like to media partneror sponsor any of these programs,
please contact sponsorship@nyssa.org.
Chairs
Wendy Walker, CFA, Argus Research
Anthony A. Ginsberg, Ginsberg Consulting
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Speaker Bios
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Cary Krosinsky is vice president for Trucost Inc.
Trucost has built the world’s most extensive database of over 700
emissions and pollutants of over 4,500 public companies around the
world. Trucost uses this data to help portfolio managers
understand their carbon footprints and help companies lower them while
maintaining and enhancing performance. Krosinsky was a member of the
70-person Expert Group in 2005 that created the United Nations
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), which over $14 trillion
worth of asset managers and owners committed to. He continues to
participate in the United Nations Environment Programme’s Finance
Initiative (UNEP FI) and worked in collaboration with Trucost on their
award-winning 2006 UK Trust Carbon Footprint study, as well as
on the Carbon Counts Asia 2007 report.
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Stephen Viederman is the former president of the Jessie Smith Noyes
Foundation, a leader in supporting community organizing on issues of
economic and environmental justice, reproductive rights, sustainable
agriculture, and in mission-related investing. His writing, speaking,
consulting, and advocacy work covers a wide range of issues that include
redefining the fiduciary duty of foundations and other institutional
investors to help them recognize the obligations of being a shareowner,
economic and environmental justice, the limits of corporate
responsibility, and issues surrounding the conceptualization and
practice of sustainability. He serves on the advisory committees of the
Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors,
the finance committees of the Christopher Reynolds Foundation and the
Needmor Fund, and the Investor Network on Climate Change, among other
groups.
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