The Network for Sustainable Financial Markets (NSFM), an international, non-partisan network of finance sector professionals and academics with an interest in long-term investing, is conducting a survey of investment professionals to ask their opinion on how financial services should be reformed in the light of the current global financial crisis. NSFM argues that the financial system had become flawed in that it no longer reflected the interests of ordinary savers, and that insufficient attention had been paid to sustainable wealth creation.

In order to assist in formulating the necessary reforms to overcome the crisis, the NSFM has drafted a set of seven Principles for Financial Reform that address sustainable value creation, the identification of hidden risks and rewards, the balance between short and long-term views, market participants taking responsibility for their actions, improvements to governance in financial institutions, better aligning financial interests, and a coordinated global approach to better protect financial markets.

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