Why Reform Global Finance? – Financial crises, booms, busts and bubbles signal the need to overhaul the global financial system. What kind of reforms can re-direct economic development toward equity and sustainability? (~ 27 minutes) . From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
Reforming The IMF – The IMF is in crisis – few countries want its loans and the onerous restrictions and “conditionalities” imposed. The future of the IMF will require massive reform. (~ 27 minutes) . From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
Visions For A Better Future – Discusses the many researchers and think tanks offering alternative paths to more just and humane forms of development.(~ 27 minutes) . From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
Getting From Here To There – Reviews what can be done today to forge new paths to human development and ecological sustainability. (~ 27 minutes). From Ethical Markets miniseries on International Financial Reform, featuring John Perkins, Kenneth Rogoff and Sakiko Fukudu-Parr.
Joseph Stiglitz – Rebooting the Global Economy provided by FORA.tv; presentation by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz at the World Economic Forum, Davos 2009.
Hazel Henderson on GDP, part 2 provided by Epocanegociosonline; an interview with Hazel Henderson by Oscar Motomura, director of Amana-Key, in which Hazel describes national scorecards with metrics beyond GDP/GNP and other money-coefficients; English interview with Portuguese sub-titles.
Hazel Henderson on GDP, part 1 provided by Epocanegociosonline; an interview with Hazel Henderson by Oscar Motomura, director of Amana-Key, in which Hazel describes national scorecards with metrics beyond GDP/GNP and other money-coefficients; English interview with Portuguese sub-titles.
The Whole World Was Watching provided by KCTS9; video on the anniversary of World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, WA, USA in 1999.
In this program, Hazel Henderson and Wayne Silby, lawyer and founder of the Calvert Group of socially responsible mutual funds discuss where these investing trends Silby pioneered , are heading. They discuss how these trends evolved , as both were colleagues at Calvert from its launch in 1982 , when Henderson served on Calvert’s Advisory Council with other experts , helping develop Calvert’s social screens . These screens helped steer portfolios away from companies with poor records on pollution, mistreatment of employees, alcohol, tobacco, weapons makers toward the cleaner, greener ethical portfolios of many hundreds of similar funds today. Both agree that these investment vehicles, whether still called “ triple bottom lineâ€, SRI, ESG , ethical, or “green†are now mainstream, with their value-based metrics offered by Morgan Stanley’s MSCI group. . These funds are now often re-branded more broadly as “ impact investing “ seen as more acceptable , and are now offered by mainstream firms from Blackrock and Goldman Sachs to Bank of America . Other terms include “ sustainable “ , all widening the market for these funds. Thus, the issue going forward is to monitor these mainstream funds , their values , mission statements and portfolio choices and performance to avoid “ greenwashing “ !
With Teresa Radzinski, MBA
US Trust-Bank of America
In this program Hazel Henderson explores with Teresa Radzinski, MBA, Managing Director,
U. S.Trust-Bank of America Private Wealth Management, their special portfolios designed for ethical, responsible investors. These portfolio’s are geared to meet the values of investors who are concerned with social, environmental and governance issues, including gender equity, diversity, climate change and carbon-free goals. They discuss the 30 year evolution of these kinds of innovative portfolios now going mainstream under the new branding of “impact funds”. These are especially appealing to women and millennial investors.