Social investment fora
The national and regional ‘Social Investment Fora’ are the trade bodies for SRI investors around the world. They have nurtured and promoted the concept of SRI from the very earliest stages and are critical to the next phase of growth, legitimisation and integration. Their multi-faceted role typically includes:
- Promoting SRI and, more broadly, sustainability within all investment
- Monitoring the size and development of SRI
- Stimulating demand for SRI within different asset owner groups
- Representing the industry to government and other stakeholders
- Managing industry self-regulation and standard setting
- Incubating the development of new services before releasing them to private sector supply
- Managing networking activities and conferences
- ...and everything else that would be expected of industry bodies...
SRI-CONNECT is strongly supportive of the work that the SIFs do and offers them and their employees wide access to SRI-CONNECT services without fee. In particular, we think that SRI-CONNECT will assist SIFs in the following ways:
Market Buzz
- Disseminate news and research to their membership base and beyond to a global SRI audience
- Receive news, research and reports from members and other SRI practitioners – also notifications of discussions, events and blogs – all filtered to their own specific interests
- Search the SRI-CONNECT database for research and reports
Profiles
- Present their research capabilities to a global market of members and potential members
- Ensure that suppliers (companies, specialist research providers and others) have a clear understanding of their objectives, capabilities and needs
- Find and filter profiles to identify relevant research providers, contacts at companies, analysts at research providers and experts at other organisations
SRI Network
- Organise efficiently meetings, seminars and networking events for members
- Engage members and the wider SRI community in discussions about the developing industry and its needs
- Extend and manage their own SRI network via the groups, events and messaging functions
Info & comment
For Social Investment Fora, the Info & Comment section contains:
Introductory reports
- SRI Primer – which considers SRI from first principles and aims to address all of the questions that newcomers may have about the industry. For the more advanced, it also describes 21 distinct SRI strategies, outlines progress in 5 asset classes and addresses the question of ‘proof, prejudice & investment performance’
- Ecology of SRI – which introduces all participants within the SRI industry, maps their respective roles, addresses the current issues that they each face, outlines the services that they can expect from SRI-CONNECT and lists all industry participants in each category
SRI Dynamics discussion papers
All SRI Dynamics papers may be of interest to Social Investment Fora. See ‘SRI Dynamics’ in Appendix A.
SRI-kipedia
- Source - updated information on the SRI industry, its markets, industry sectors and sustainability issues
- Contribute - to this ‘work-in-progress’ knowledge-base on sectors, sustainability issues and SRI markets
New(s)ources
- Monitor - newsflow from SRI practitioners
- Publish - news automatically to the global SRI market by including RSS feeds from their website, blogs or Twitter within their SRI-CONNECT profile
Registration and membership
- Some of these services are freely available to all browsers
- Most are only available to ‘registered users’ (registration is free)
- Some are restricted to subscribed members (subscription is cheap!)
For full details see Registration and subscription
