Today, experts in sustainable and responsible investment are launching a new association, Sustainable Finance Geneva (SFG), created to promote financial solutions reconciling economic development with social and environmental challenges. SFG is an association created by fifteen professionals with a common…
Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the 3rd Quarter of 2008. An overview of emerging and decreasing topics is…
Increased attention on product human risk and smaller media coverage of drug donations have challenged Pharmaceuticals' ethical reputation last year, states a report published today by Geneva-based research firm Covalence — Covalence Pharmaceutical Industry Report 2008. The pharmaceutical industry dropped…
Insisting questioning of local impacts and benefits have made the Mining & Metals industry’s ethical reputation suffer last year, while Alcoa and Rio Tinto continued progressing, indicates a report published today by Geneva-based research firm Covalence — Covalence Mining &…
Geneva-based Covalence is publishing today its quarterly ethical reputation ranking, giving the best ranked companies as well as those companies which have made the most progress in the 2nd Quarter of 2008. An overview of emerging and decreasing topics is…
In the light of recent financial scandals, like Enron in 2001, we can wonder how easy it is to understand the economic reality of companies through their financial reports. For example Enron seemed to be a transparent company and its…
Overseas aid and its effect on the development of a country have long been debated by politicians and citizens alike. While the results have differed on a case-by-case basis, due to its subjective nature, there has been a growing trend…
A fresh writedown for UBS. An ethical writedown, that is. The below chart compiled by Covalance - an ethical research outfit. As you’ll notice, UBS - generally a poorly behaved child - has been very naughty since mid-April. (...) HSBC,…
Interactions of banks with governments are increasingly criticized in terms of ethics; meanwhile, environmental initiatives and philanthropic donations are the industry’s main positive news cows, states a report published today by Geneva-based ethical reputation research firm Covalence — Covalence Banking…
Les interactions des banques avec les gouvernements sont de plus en plus critiquées d’un point de vue éthique; pendant ce temps, les initiatives environnementales et les donations philanthropiques sont les principales sources d’informations positives de l’industrie, indique un rapport publié…
