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News coverage archive
May - October 2001
Pensions Week - Monday, October 8, 2001
Institutions fall short in proxy voting
Commenting on proxy voting at Business in the Environment conference, Paul Myners, Chairman of Gartmore Investment Management, said more vehicles should be introduced to allow institutional investors to vote.
The Guardian - Wednesday, October 3, 2001
Myners'wake-up call ruffles City feathers
Gartmore Investment Managers chairman Paul Myners, speaking on October 2 at a City seminar organised by Business in the Environment urged business to stand up and take its wider social responsibilities more seriously. Business would lose legitimacy if it did not engage more fully with stakeholders, he said, accusing some executives of being "lazy and irresponsible" by hiding behind a wall of non-disclosure. Mr. Myners also said it was nonsense for companies to argue that there was conflict between shareholder value and social responsibility.
Pensions Week - Monday, October 1, 2001
Changing the City's environment
The assesment of environmental investment risk is something the National Pension Funds (NAPF) and many pension funds trustees have for some time expected their investment managers to undertake...To ensure its subscribers have good analytical data to hand, the NAPF's Voting Issues Service (VIS) supports the Index of Corporate Environmental Engagement compiled by Business in the Environment (BIE).
The Ethical Investor - September/October 2001
Companies need ethical pensions, say campaign
A influential business-led campaign group has urged the country's top 350 companies to ensure that the trustees of their own company pension funds are aware of issues of environmental and social responsibility.
Engineering-UK - Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Three shortlisted for Business in the Environment Award
3M UK plc, Severn Trent Plc and Union Railways (South) Ltd - which built the Channel Tunnel Rail Link - have been shortlisted for this year's Business in the Environment Award.
Chartered Secretary - July 2001
Green companies fail to raise the profile of SRI
Listed companies are failing to make the case for socially responsible investment in the City of London.
The Irish Times - Monday, June 18, 2001
Green policy success not all-or-nothing mattter
Can business afford to be responsible? Companies that claim to have an environmental conscience are about to be put to the test …
The Times - Friday, June 15, 2001
Business leaders embrace environmental isues
Letter from BiE's Leadership Team
Environmental Finance - June 2001
Analysts not convinced by green issues
Environmental and social factors remain well down the list o issues of concern to UK analysts, investors and financial journalists …
Green Futures - May/June 2001
Benchmarks, bouquets and brickbas
How well are Britain's big companies managing to engage with the sustainability agenda? Those at the top of the pile are now turning in some impressively high scores …
Financial Adviser - Thursday, May 31, 2001
Green agenda starts to take root in the City
A survey of 200 City professionals shows that the concept f corporate responsibility is more popular within the confines of the Square Mile.
Investment Adviser - Monday, May 28, 2001
Social issues rise in priority for City
Listed companies that place environmental and social factors high on their agenda have been accused of "selling themselves short" in the City.
Pensions Week - Monday, May 28, 2001
Companies need to trumpet SRI results more
Companies have been failing to communicate their corporate social responsibility achievements enough to institutional investors.
The Times - Friday, May 25, 2001
Environmental factors play little part in City Life
Publication of 'Investing in the Future' - which showed that although only 3% of analysts and 4% of investors volunteered that they took environmental and social factors into account when judging investments, when asked specifically about the environment 33% said it was 'quite or very' important compared with 20% in 1994.
The Times - Friday, May 25, 2001
Commentary by Patience Wheatcroft, Business and City Editor
It seems the debate on the role that the City has to play in shaping the environmental impact of our biggest companies has yet to start.
Financial Times - Friday, May 25, 2001
Analysts remain sceptical about environmental and social factors
Publication of 'Investing in the Future' - City analysts remain sceptical about the impact of environmental and social factors on corporate performance in spite of recent efforts to make sustainable development a mainstream business issue.
Professional Pensions - Thursday, May 24, 2001
Companies failing to convince on SRI strategies
Companies with socially responsible investment strategies are "selling themselves short" by failing to make their case to City fund managers
EFinancial News - Thursday, 24 May, 2001
Companies have failed to raise profile of SRI in UK market
Listed companies that are leading the way in socially responsible investment have failed to make their case to the City of London
Accountancy online - Thursday, May 24, 2001
City not treating sustainable development seriously
Short-term profits still reign, even though there could be over 50 new environmental measures from Europe affecting business over the next five years
The ENDS Report - May 2001
Environment is still low on City's agenda
Environmental and social issues remain near the bottom of the financial community's list of priorities
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