Further information on the SRI industry and its dynamics can be found from:
Social investment fora
The original and leading suppliers of SRI industry information and market data are the Social Investment Fora of different countries and regions.
Industry commentators
Apart from the Social Investment Fora, there are a few specialist providers of SRI news and comment. Of these, the following deserve particular note:
- Environmental Finance (http://www.environmental-finance.com/)- a monthly magazine covering the ever-increasing impact of environmental issues on the lending, insurance
- Novethic (http://www.novethic.com) – a research centre that tracks developments in the French market
- Responsible Investor (http://www.responsible-investor.com/) – an online publication that tracks developments in the SRI market around the world and interviews participants in the industry.
- Social Funds (http://www.socialfunds.com/) – a US-based provider of news and information on developments in the global SRI industry
SRI-CONNECT - for ‘practitioner’ news
SRI is a young, fast-growing and practitioner-led industry. It is also one that prides itself on transparency. As a result, the most valuable information is often that which is sourced directly from practitioners. SRI-CONNECT has established three functions to do this and to channel news and comment about developments in SRI directly from practitioners to users:
- Market Buzz – enables users from around the world to a) publish and tag and (b) source and search for news on the SRI industry
- New(s)ources - which aggregates RSS feeds from key sources of SRI information and publishes them (and their sources)
- SRI-kipedia – which is a wiki hosted within SRI-CONNECT. It is a user-edited collection point for the ‘work-in-progress’ knowledge about developments in the SRI industry. Alongside information on sustainability issues and sectors, it contains information on SRI markets, strategies, asset classes and investment performance.
Also, for users who wish to build their own sourcebook, SRI-CONNECT supplies:
- Within Directory – details of all practitioners RSS Feeds, TwitterFeeds and email distribution
- OPML files for importing into users’ own readers
