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Student campaigning for responsible investing pays off at St.Andrews…How did CURI help? Read on…

CURI is pleased to announce St Andrew’s University has signed the UN Principles for Responsible Investment in 2013.

This represents an excellent outcome for student-led campaigning for responsible investment. The Students’ Association at St. Andrew’s began campaigning for a Responsible Investment policy ten years ago and in a referendum in May of 2003, 91% of the 1,200 students elected to support a responsible investment campaign. Students have been working closely with the University ever since to develop a Sustainable Investment Policy, implemented in 2007.

One student involved in the campaign explains “the motivation, innovation and at the same time patience of both the students and the University’s administration to understand each other’s concerns and positions as well as the concepts of investing are what led to the success of this unique bottom-up engagement!”

CURI is proud to have supported on-going campaigning by St. Andrews’ students by providing strategic advice on engagement efforts with the university administration and research benchmarking progress against other universities.

Congratulations St. Andrew’s!

Source for background: http://www.thesaint-online.com/2013/04/university-signs-principles-of-responsible-investment/

CURI Advisory Board Members Address Responsible Investing Issues at UVIC

How can institutional investors, like pensions and endowments, meet their financial needs while benefiting their communities and the wider world? That’s the question that CURI Advisory Board members Peter Chapman (SHARE) and Ben Richardson (UBC Faculty of Law), along with Christine Bergeron (VanCity) answered on Nov. 6th at a panel hosted by UVic student group CommonEnergy and supported by the Centre for Cooperative and Community Based Economics, the University of Victoria Sustainability Project, and the University of Victoria Student Society.
The event was part of a ongoing campaign by CommonEnergy members to encourage UVic to incorporate responsible investment strategies into their endowment and pension funds. This campaign had played a role in the endowment board’s decision over the summer to ask their fund managers to consider environmental, social and governance factors and to report annually on proxy vote use. The Nov. 6th event was a catalyst for conversation and will push the campaign forward to more engagement with staff, faculty, and students.
For more information, contact Matt Hammer: permaculture.matt@gmail.com
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CURI Releases Strategic Plan

CURI is excited to announce the release its strategic plan for 2011-2013. The plan sets out CURI’s mission, vision, values, objectives and implementation strategies for achieving positive change and long-term sustainability. Although the challenge of achieving sustainable development is complex and multi-layered, university investment decision makers and their stakeholders have a vital role to play in achieving this objective, particularly if they can act effectively within their own sphere of influence. As such, our approach is underpinned by a commitment to multi-stakeholder dialogue and responsiveness. Please click here to learn more about CURI’s approach and plan of action over the coming year.

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