Calvert Special Reports are topical analyses of issues of concern and opportunity. The Reports provide introductions and overviews, summaries of relevant Calvert initiatives, suggestions for individual action, and links to outside resources.
Climate Change: The Risks and the Opportunities
Understanding the risks and opportunities associated with climate change is critical to today’s investor. In coming years, we believe climate change will have a profound impact on the average investment portfolio.
Calvert Women's Principles
The Calvert Women's Principles are the first global code of corporate conduct focused exclusively on empowering, advancing, and investing in women worldwide.
From Crisis to Opportunity
From Wall Street to Main Streets across America and in all corners of the world, the financial crisis and economic recession are taking a heavy toll. Yet extraordinary opportunities are arising from the wreckage.
Examining the Cracks in the Ceiling
A survey, tracking diversity initiatives at the 636 companies that make up the Calvert Social Index, reveals that 83% of leading companies have at least one woman or minority on their boards, but only 38% have a woman or minority among their five highest paid executives.
Greener Pastures for America's Homebuilders
Despite some encouraging environmental and energy-efficiency developments in recent years, none of America’s 13 largest publicly traded homebuilders has “fully embraced the emerging market of sustainable building design and construction,” according to a major new study by Calvert.
The Subprime Crisis and Calvert's Response
The first visible indications of crisis came in early 2007. Subprime home mortgages that had been originated in the previous year were observed to be defaulting at rates far higher than expected, which called into question the value of securities collateralized by these loans.
Partnering to End the Crisis in Darfur
The situation in Darfur is the most urgent human rights and humanitarian crisis in the world right now and, as such, it compels Calvert to act. That is why Calvert began seeking ways in which we might help end the atrocities and genocide in Sudan.
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