Finance : Research

The 2008 Proxy Report highlights key issues, describes current social and environmental proposals, identifies key investors and organizations filing them, provides a list of companies and upcoming proxy votes, features new reports, and offers a resource section that will further enable foundations to learn more about what their colleagues in the philanthropic community are doing to align investment and mission.

The U.S. tax code is riddled with loopholes that allow top corporate and financial leaders to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Ordinary taxpayers wind up picking up the bill – to the tune of more than $20 billion per year. All five executive-friendly tax loopholes highlighted in the report are the targets of Congressional reforms. However, these efforts have stalled in the face of fierce opposition from corporate lobby groups.

Fraud will cost firms $994bn this year

Two-thirds of U.S. Corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998-2005, according to this reort from congress.

This report is the first publication from the Green New Deal Group

The carbon market is the most visible result of early regulatory efforts to mitigate climate change. Regulation constraining carbon emissions has spawned an emerging carbon market that was valued at US$64 billion in 2007. Its biggest success so far has been to send market signals for the price of mitigating carbon emissions. This, in turn, has stimulated innovation and carbon abatement worldwide, as motivated individuals, communities, companies and governments
have cooperated to reduce emissions.

The central purpose of this report is to assess Unilever’s “economic footprint” in South Africa.

This paper sought innovation in the teaching of Finance, with the following question in mind; how does the penetration of social and environmental issues into the Finance discipline compare to other disciplines?

According to the Charity Commission, “Trustees should try to consider the whole range of investment options which are open to them”, and “must consider the need for diversification, i.e. having different types of investment, and different investments within each type. This will reduce the risk of losses resulting from concentrating on a particular investment or type of investment.“  For charities with Responsible Investment policies, part of the consideration of diversification and risk may be influenced by the