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close this bookLeverage for the Environment - A Guide to the Private Financial Services Industry (WRI, 1998, 108 pages)
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View the documentFOREWORD
View the documentACKNOWLEDGMENTS
View the document1. INTRODUCTION
View the document2. COMMERCIAL BANKS
View the document3. INVESTMENT BANKS
View the document4. MUTUAL FUNDS
View the document5. PENSION FUNDS
View the document6. PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE
View the document7. LIFE INSURANCE
View the document8. VENTURE CAPITAL
View the document9. FOUNDATIONS
View the document10. CONCLUSION
View the documentGLOSSARY*
View the documentABOUT THE AUTHORS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The materials in this guide were prepared with the support of the Wallace Global Fund and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation by John Ganzi of Environment and Finance Enterprise, Frances Seymour, Director of the IFFE project at WRI, and Sandy Buffett, a consultant to WRI, with Navroz K. Dubash, Associate at WRI. The diagrams were prepared by Robin Dunn, a consultant to Environment and Finance Enterprise.

Many individuals contributed to the conceptualization and refinement of the materials during initial brainstorming sessions and subsequent reviews. Each industry segment was informally reviewed by at least three professionals active in that industry. Special thanks are due to Bradford Gentry of Yale University and Don Reed of WRI for providing extensive comments on the manuscript.

Thanks also to Hewson Baltzell of Innovest; David Barkin of Universidad Autonomia Metropolitania; Louis Boorstin of the International Finance Corporation; Brooks Brown of Environmental Enterprise Assistance Fund; Sanders Cathcart of Insurance Services Office; Michelle Chan-Fishel of Friends of the Earth; Rebecca Craft of Prudential; Rob Day of WRI; Bertrand de Frondeville of BDF International; Linda Descano of Salomon-Smith Barney; Lily Donge of WRI; Shelley Fennell of SustainAbility; Thomas Greco of American Bankers Association; Robert Hayn of TIAA/CREF; Evan Henry of Bank of America; Julie Hespe of American International Group; Walter Howes of FBI Capital; Heinrich Hugenschmidt of UBS Environmental Management Services; Lawrence Jacobsen of Mortgage Bankers Association; Shek Jain and Steve Jones of Jones, Day, Reavis, and Pogue; Erna Karrer-Ruedi of Swiss Reinsurance; Mike Kelly of NatWest Group; Franc Knecht of Swiss Bank Corp.; Phil Kozloff of Citicorp; Lisa Leff of Salomon-Smith Barney; Eve Lesser of Goldman Sachs; Peggy Murphy of Sherman & Sterling; Brian Neubert of the U.S. State Department, formerly of WRI; Janet Ranganathan of WRI; Ken Sylvester of the City of New York (Pension Policy); Julie Tanner of National Wildlife Federation; Barbara Thorpe of Winslow Management; Ariane van Buren of Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility; Stephen Viederman of Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation; Robert Wiereter of Marsh & McLennan; Thomas Wratten of Principal Commercial Advisors, Inc.; and members of the "Third Tuesday Group" for providing comments on key portions or early drafts of the manuscript.

Valuable research assistance from Lily Donge, Anne-Valerie Mirko, and Ben Sinnamon and assistance in planning and production from Carol Rosen, Deborah Farmer, Hyacinth Billings, Michelle Corrigan, Lily Donge, Mairi Dupar, and Lori Han is greatly appreciated. Melissa Dann of the Wallace Global Fund, Ed Miller of the C.S. Mott Foundation, and David Schorr of the World Wildlife Fund have all provided important overall support to the IFFE project and to this particular effort. All remaining errors of fact or interpretation remain those of the authors.

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