Socially Responsible Investment Industry’s Premier Conference

As socially and environmentally amenable advance continues to allure added investors and accretion drive in the marketplace, First Affirmative Financial Network and the nonprofit Social Investment Forum (SIF) will host the 19th anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.sriintherockies.com), October 26–29, 2008 at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler in British Columbia, Canada.

SRI in the Rockies is accepted to draw added than 700 professionals from the socially and ecology amenable investment industry in the U.S. and about the world. This arch anniversary industry accident attracts a advanced ambit of investment professionals—from banking admiral to institutional investors and alternate armamentarium companies—as able-bodied as amusing analysis and proxy voting organizations. Members of religious organizations and amusing change non-profits, and admiral from association development banks, acclaim unions and accompanying organizations aswell will be in attendance.

Conference sessions will focus on: acceptable accounts and investing, business belief and transparency, new trends in actor activism, altitude change, and arising issues and industries like apple-pie tech, and the latest on association investing. The abounding SRI in the Rockies Conference agenda is accessible online at www.sriintherockies.com/2008/agenda.jsp.

Conference speakers will include: David Brancaccio, host of the PBS account annual NOW and columnist of Squandering Aimlessly; Doug Bauer, chief carnality admiral , Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors; Matt Christiansen, controlling director, European Social Investment Forum (Eurosif); Sarah Forrest, controlling director, Goldman Sachs Sustain, London; Barbara J. Krumsiek, chair, CEO, and admiral of Calvert Group, Ltd; Kenneth G. Lay, carnality admiral and broker of the World Bank; and Jack Robinson, founder, Winslow Management Company.

The 2008 appointment takes abode adjoin the accomplishments of an industry that continues to aggrandize rapidly. According to the Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States issued in July 2008 by SIF, socially and environmentally amenable advance is advancing in the United States, growing at a faster clip than the broader cosmos of all investment assets beneath able management. Roughly 11 percent of assets beneath able administration in the U.S. (nearly one out of every nine dollars) are now complex in SRI. From 2005-2007, SRI assets added added than 18 percent while the broader cosmos of professionally managed assets broadcast beneath than 3 percent.

ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC (www.FirstAffirmative.com) is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-5687). The company, which manages about $700 actor in applicant portfolios, offers consulting and asset administration casework through a civic arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined socially acquainted investors. First Affirmative produces the anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.SRIintheRockies.com), the arch appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment industry in North America.

ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM
The Social Investment Forum (SIF) is the U.S. associates affiliation committed to advancing the concept, practice, and advance of socially and environmentally amenable investing. SIF associates accommodate economic, environmental, social, and babyminding factors into their investment decisions. SIF associates includes added than 500 amusing investment practitioners and institutions, including banking professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, alternate funds, researchers, foundations, association development organizations, and accessible educators. More advice about the Forum, including the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United State, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.

REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIPS
To annals to appear the conference, go to www.sriintherockies.com/register.jsp. For abetment with allotment and sponsorships, amuse acquaintance Krystala Kalil ad 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.

MEDIA QUESTIONS
Morrison Shafroth for First Affirmative: 720-470-3653 / mshafroth@csg-pr.com
Patrick Mitchell for SIF: 703-276-3266 / pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com

NuInvest, LLC and Life Settlement Advisors Announce Partnership

Scottsdale based NuInvest, LLC announces a cardinal business affiliation with the arch European banking engineering close Life Settlement Advisors. This accord bridges the gap amid the US and European activity adjustment investment markets, to accompany a added compassionate and bare abatement to investors internationally.

"This accord is acceding advantaged and different acceptance to activity adjustment investment opportunities, to which US able investment managers accept not ahead had access," said Andreas Hauss, CEO of Life Settlement Advisors. "Our accord responds to the evolving charge for abundance aegis with tailor-made, longevity-linked investment instruments."

"Our affiliation will accord institutional investors, barrier funds, banks and accepted investors acceptance to added adult activity adjustment investments," said George Polzer, President of NuInvest, LLC. "We are authoritative this investment action accessible to a broader ambit of investors by exchanging US and European expertise, business and networking assets which ahead had bound access. These are difficult times for all investors, and activity allowance investment articles accept commonly been the safe anchorage for investors. Investors now charge to apprentice how to crop advantage of this new asset chic which was ahead bedeviled by the mega-wealthy and institutional investors."

In today's agitated banking markets, as in the past, allowance accompanying articles such as activity adjustment investments accretion account and are today fueling an investment boom. Given the inherent basic protection, with above-market acknowledgment opportunities and the low-volatile, uncorrelated attributes of activity adjustment investments, a growing amount of fund-of-funds, multi-strategy funds, investment banks, asset managers and ancestors offices are requesting admonition apropos accessible activity adjustment investments articles best ill-fitted for their portfolios and asset allocation needs.

About NuInvest, LLC
NuInvest, LLC is an addition investment business and sales alignment acknowledging the best-in-class activity adjustment investment articles and services. NuInvest's ambition is to brainwash investment admiral and banking professionals about the risks and rewards of this unique, "new" asset class. Visit www.nuinvest.com for added information.

About Life Settlement Advisors
Life Settlement Advisors, based in Lugano Switzerland, offers advising casework as able-bodied as banking engineering casework in the activity adjustment industry, targeting alone institutional, clandestine banks, ancestors offices and alimony plans. Visit www.ls-advisors.com for added information.

Speaker Line-up at 19th Annual SRI in the Rockies Conference Released

Award-winning adept announcer David Brancaccio, Stephen Lewis, Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations and Barbara J. Krumsiek, Chair, CEO, and President of Calvert Group, Ltd. are a allotment of a able accumulation of speakers and capacity slated for the 19th anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference, October 26–29, 2008.

Mr. Brancaccio, host of the PBS account annual NOW and columnist of Squandering Aimlessly; will abstinent a roundtable on industry trends at SRI in the Rockies, which will be captivated at The Fairmont Chateau Whistler in the beauteous Canadian Rockies in Whistler, British Columbia. This year’s affair is accepted to draw a almanac 700 acceptable and amenable investment (SRI) industry practitioners and professionals from accompanying fields in the United States, Canada, and about the world—the better acquisition in the conference’s 19-year history.

The 2008 appointment affair is Beyond Borders: Investing & Partnering for a Sustainable World. Sessions will focus on acceptable accounts and investing, ramifications of the acclaim crisis, business belief and transparency, new trends in actor activism, altitude change, assorted arising issues and industries like apple-pie tech, the latest on association investing, and a host of added topics.

In accession to Mr. Brancaccio, absolute speakers include:

•Doug Bauer, Senior Vice President , Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
•Melissa Brown, above Executive Director, Association of Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)
•Timothy "Scott" Case, Technologist, Entrepreneur, Inventor: Co-Founder, priceline.com
•Michelle Chan, Program Manager, Green Investments Project, Friends of the Earth; President of BankTrack
•Dave Chen, Venture Capitalist; Chairman of the Oregon Innovation Council
•Matt Christensen, Executive Director, European Social Investment Forum
•Eugene Ellmen, Executive Director, Social Investment Organization, Canada
•Sarah Forrest, Executive Director, Goldman Sachs Sustain, London
•Reynold Hert, President, CEO and Director, Western Forest Products Inc.
•Jennifer James, Urban Cultural Anthropologist
•Michael Jantzi, President and Founder, Jantzi Research
•Barbara J. Krumsiek, Chair, CEO, and President of Calvert Group, Ltd.
•Valerie Langer, Director, BC Coast Campaigns, ForestEthics
•Kenneth G. Lay, Vice President and Treasurer, The World Bank
•Stephen Lewis, Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
•Ross McMillan, President and CEO, Tides Canada Foundation
•Ken Melamed, Mayor of the Resort Municipality of Whistler, BC
•Sandra Odendahl, Chair, North American Task Force, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
•Jack Robinson, Founder, Winslow Management Company
•Richard Russell, Board President, The Russell Family Foundation
•Art Sterritt, Executive Director of the Coastal First Nations
•Lisa Woll, CEO of the Social Investment Forum (U.S.)

SRI in the Rockies is a affiliation amid First Affirmative Financial Network and the non-profit Social Investment Forum (SIF). The appointment attracts a advanced ambit of investment professionals—from banking admiral to institutional investors and alternate armamentarium companies—as able-bodied as amusing analysis and proxy voting organizations. Members of religious organizations and amusing change non-profits, and admiral from association development banks, acclaim unions and accompanying organizations aswell will be in attendance.

ABOUT FIRST AFFIRMATIVE
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC (www.FirstAffirmative.com) is an absolute fee-only Registered Investment Advisor (SEC File #801-5687). The company, which manages about $700 actor in applicant portfolios, offers consulting and asset administration casework through a civic arrangement of investment professionals who specialize in confined socially acquainted investors. First Affirmative produces the anniversary SRI in the Rockies Conference (www.SRIintheRockies.com), the arch appointment for the acceptable and amenable investment industry in North America.

ABOUT THE SOCIAL INVESTMENT FORUM
The Social Investment Forum (SIF) is the U.S. associates affiliation committed to advancing the concept, practice, and advance of socially and environmentally amenable investing. SIF associates accommodate economic, environmental, social, and babyminding factors into their investment decisions. SIF associates includes added than 500 amusing investment practitioners and institutions, including banking professionals, analysts, portfolio managers, banks, alternate funds, researchers, foundations, association development organizations, and accessible educators. More advice about the Forum, including the 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States, is accessible at www.socialinvest.org.

REGISTRATION AND SPONSORSHIPS
To annals to appear the conference, go to www.sriintherockies.com/register.jsp. For abetment with allotment and sponsorships, amuse acquaintance Krystala Kalil at 303-442-4463 / krystala@SRIintheRockies.com.

MEDIA QUESTIONS
Mo Shafroth for First Affirmative and SRI in the Rockies: 720-470-3653 / mshafroth@csg-pr.com
Patrick Mitchell for the Social Investment Forum: 703-276-3266 / pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com

First Affirmative
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Free Seminar on 'Investment Banking' on 06 Dec'09, New Delhi

Seminar on investment cyberbanking will present an invaluable apparatus and acumen for acceptance who ambition to accept the realms of the career advantage in investment banking. It will be an alternate affair wherein candidates will apprentice what the companies attending for while hiring analysts and assembly in the acreage of finance, what career opportunities does this acreage accord and what needs to be done to advance and benedict oneself. Besides you will aswell be accomplished some techniques on appraisal which are acclimated by Investment Bankers in their advance of work.

Who should attend?
College Students (Graduation, Post Graduation, Professional bodies like CA, CFA, MBA)
MBAs, Chartered Accountants, Chartered Financial Analysts
Working Professionals

PS: Entries are carefully by allotment with bound seats.

Venue: Rajendra Bhawan, ITO, New Delhi
Date : 06 December 2009
Time: 3 p.m. To 5 p.m.

For added data amuse contact:
ARC Academia Private Limited
311, Ansals Majestic Tower, PVR Complex, Block – G, Vikas Puri, New Delhi – 110018
Ph: +91 11 4562 2127, 28, info@arc-academia.com, www.arc-academia.com

Regards
Team ARC
ARC Academia

About ARC Academia:
ARC Academia (www.arc-academia.com) is a avant-garde banking training and career development close alms customized training programmes to students, professionals, and humans in career transition, analytic to apprentice or aggrandize their ability in one or added of the afterward areas: Investment Banking, Financial Research, Private Equity and Venture Capital Finance. Its top above artistic training programs are run by professionals with abounding years of applied experience.

The adroitness associates of ARC Academia who accept acquaintance of alive with the Ivy alliance investment banks, asset administration companies and consulting firms as Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, McKinsey &Co begin a audacious alterity in what the acceptance apprentice during their bookish programme vis a vis the claim of accounts and basic bazaar industry.

Transform your compassionate access appear the apple of investment banking.

A New Department of Law Firm Gleanings for Investors in Belarus

It becomes added and added favorable to put investments into the Belarus economy. Recently some new abstracts directed on advance of an investment altitude accept been acclimatized in the country.

In this bearings law close Gleanings opens an investment administration which is to be aggressive on apprehension a abounding ambit of acknowledged casework for adopted investors in Belarus.

Their attorneys accommodate you with all all-important advice apropos contempo changes in legislation acclimation investments in Belarus.

As of now, amuse be abreast that the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus from 06 August 2009 №10 establishes both for belarusian and adopted investors the rules facilitating the alpha of ability of investment projects in Belarus. The certificate provides aswell the accepted preferences for the projects accomplished aural the banned of investment contracts. The three-level arrangement of the cessation of investment affairs with Belarus is established, depending on the accent of the activity and accustomed preferences. The decree fixes binding altitude of the cessation of investment contracts, and aswell the achievability of their amplification proceeding from a annex acclimatization and specificity of the investment project.

Taking into anniversary the convenance of the ability of the investment projects in Belarus such accepted preferences to the investors are offered: acreage acceding in hire after auction; stage-by-stage allotment of all-important abstracts on the acreage accompanying with architecture on in actuality active lands, and architecture of altar with alongside designing of the consecutive stages of building; acceptation of the all-important accessories and abstracted locations to it after transaction of the community duties and the amount added tax. Besides, the broker hasn’t pay the advantage of losses of an agronomical production, and aswell the advantage affiliated with accustomed over and acid down of blooming plantings on the acreage of settlements; the broker is aswell appear from paying the State fee for appropriate permissions to the adopted citizens complex with the broker for ability of the investment project.

On October, 16th, 2009 the Act of the President of Belarus № 510 «About accomplishment of ascendancy (supervising) action in Belarus» has been signed. According to this act accustomed out of ascendancy checks by accompaniment bodies is banned aural two years from the date of:
•state allotment of companies;
•state allotment of adumbrative offices of the adopted organizations.

Thus, business ambidextrous in the Republic of Belarus became added stable. The accident of blocking of plan of a aggregation because of accompaniment checks and accomplishments of ascendancy bodies has decreased.

Gleanings accommodate acknowledged casework for allotment of:
•a close in the forms of a bound accountability aggregation (LLC), an added accountability company, a joint-stock company;
•a unitary action (with alone one founder);
•a Representative appointment of a adopted company;
•mergers and acquisitions of companies.