The global financial meltdown has brought a positive thing: investors are ready to focus on what makes companies last. These are those managed to serve their customers, workers and communities, and which of their boards are fulfilling their obligation to manage risk, according to Marc Gunther.

But how? How are institutional or individual investors to know which companies are built to last? This the focus of the article by Marc Gunther that I wish to recommend this month. Click here to read it.

But in my opinion, investing should change to relate better to the real economy and to innovation, and not to financial products that do not add value to economic and social activity. Microfinance institutions benefit from amazingly close ties with their local communities, from knowing their borrowers well, from having an ownership structure that includes shareholders and clients…