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First-of-Kind Nationwide Survey Finds: Individual Investors See Major ...
Presidential Candidates' Environmental Records Will Impact Their Vote NEW YORK, NY - January 22, 2008 - Investors view the environment as a major long-term investing opportunity, according to the results of a groundbreaking survey of investors released here today by Allianz Global Investors, a leading global investment firm. Of the 1,003 investors surveyed, nearly half (49%) said that over the next 12 months they were likely to invest in a company or mutual fund looking to provide solutions for environmental problems; 17% reported having already made such an investment. "The environment is a fertile investment area at an early stage of growth," said Bozena Jankowska, lead portfolio manager of the Allianz RCM Global EcoTrends Fund, a continuously offered closed-end interval fund, and head of the RCM Sustainability Research Team.
Jersey home witness 'intimidated'
An ex-worker at the former children's home in Jersey at the centre of a child abuse inquiry has been intimidating a witness, police have revealed. Deputy police chief Lenny Harper warned anyone who approaches witnesses or victims in the case that they may be perverting the course of justice. He also said it could take weeks to establish the facts about a child's skull found at Haut de La Garenne. Excavations are continuing at the site as the inquiry enters a second week. Speaking at a press conference in the grounds of Haut de La Garenne, Mr Harper said officers had substantiated "to some degree" claims a former worker at the home approached a victim and told them to keep quiet. Excavations "I can't emphasise too much that anyone approaching victims or witnesses in this case could well be found to be perverting the course of justice," he warned.
Justices seem inclined to trim Exxon damages
The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to let Exxon Mobil Corp. off the hook for some of the $2.5 billion the energy giant was ordered to pay as punishment for a massive oil spill in Alaska nearly 19 years ago. The justices questioned lawyers representing both the company and the nearly 33,000 victims of the Exxon Valdez disaster for 90 minutes, making only one passing reference to Exxon's record profit. The award represents less than three weeks' worth of Exxon profit, which was $11.7 billion in the last three months of 2007. Exxon has vigorously fought to knock down or erase the punitive damages verdict by a jury in Alaska in 1994 for the accident that dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound. The environmental disaster fouled 1,200 miles of Alaskan coastline and led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of seabirds and marine animals.
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