The Financial Crisis: An Environmental, Social and Governance Perspective June 2009 June, 2009 On behalf of the Social Investment Organization, I’m pleased to present this report, The Financial Crisis: An Environmental, Social and Governance Perspective. As the voice of the socially responsible investment industry in Canada, we believe that the roots of the financial crisis affl [...] S. Attorney General intervened in early 2009. Large institutional investors, in Canada, Europe and the U. [...] G.’s financial products unit In Canada, one of the most important that undertook many of the complex financial victories for the SRI community came in 2001, transactions that pushed the company to the when the SIO and its members were part of a edge of bankruptcy. successful lobby to amend portions of the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) that governed shareholder resolutions. P [...] S.(20)(21) effort that resulted in the passage of the North Carolina Predatory Mortgage Law, The SRI community’s engagement with making North Carolina the first state to enact Associates First Capital provides a good legislation to curb predatory mortgage example of its early approach to engagement lending.(23) on this issue. In May 2000, shareholders of the company voted nine per [...] S. that predatory and subprime lending are much less prevalent in Canada. Finally, there is a noteworthy example of a case where SRI researchers were ahead of It is important to note that Canadian SRI fund mainstream analysts when it came to managers have been active on the issue of predicting the financial crisis. In October predatory and subprime lending through their 2006, based o