Middlebury College Panel Discussion: Challenges and Opportunities of Socially Responsible Investing
On Monday, April 7, 2014 Trillium’s Stephanie Leighton, CFA participated in a SRI-focused panel at Middlebury College in Vermont. Stephen Diehl, of the Middlebury College Pressroom, writes: “The panel, moderated by Student Government Association President Rachel Liddell ’15, included six investment experts and focused on how institutions can incorporate an Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG) framework in their investment-selection process and how professionals evaluate fossil-fuel investments in educational and foundation endowments… Trillium Asset Management partner and portfolio manager Stephanie Leighton said her firm is seeing less of the avoidance approach that characterized divestment from South Africa in the 1980s. ‘The real trend …
Portland Press Herald Op-Ed: Getting Out of Fossil Fuel Investing a Wise Approach for State
On January 9, 2014, Maine’s Portland Press Herald published an Op-Ed column, written by Trillium’s Senior Vice President Stephanie Leighton, in which she makes the arguement that fossil fuel free investing is an investment approach worth exploring. Stephanie’s column is reprinted, in full, below: “On Thursday, Maine’s Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs will hear testimony on whether the state of Maine should divest itself from the fossil fuel industry. I have 31 years of investment experience, and I will testify in support of the bill, L.D. 1461. Bill McKibben, the co-founder of 350.org, says, quite succinctly, “If …
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