WEBINAR: Connecting Corporate Sustainability and the Financial Services Sector

Join ISSP’s Webinar Connecting Corporate Sustainability and the Financial Services Sector, Thursday, October 07, 2010 at 12:00PM Pacific Time-USAwith expert presenters Peter Soyka, President of Soyka & Company, LLC and Ira Feldman,president and senior counsel of greentrack strategies.

Their remarks will offer a close look at the relevance, trends, and implications of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) information to both sustainability practitioners and financial sector participants.

- Sustainability professionals will better understand how ESG information is used.

- Investment, insurance, and lending professionals will better understand how ESG issues affect the value of their investments and portfolios.

Specifically, this webinar will address:

• How ESG performance influences security risk and opportunity
• Changing stakeholder expectations for corporate social responsibility
• The importance of and dramatic growth in socially responsible investing (SRI)
• How corporate ESG data are used in the financial services sector
• Advances in investor (SRI and other) sophistication concerning ESG issues
• The entry of large mainstream financial sector institutions into the ESG space
• Activist investors, and
• Emerging trends and growing expertise in other markets, particularly Europe.