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Covering advanced impact investing topics, public policy, and the capital markets.
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- Blackrock
- Central Banks
- Climate Data Disclosure
- Coronavirus
- ESG Integration
- European Central Bank
- Green Bonds
- Impact Bonds
- Impact Investing
- International Bonds
- Japan
- MSCI
- Monetary Policy
- Patagonia
- Proxy Voting
- Purpose Trust
- Shareholder Resolutions
- Sustainability Linked Bonds
- Target Date Funds
- iShares
Target Date Funds for Impact Investors
ESG target-date funds are just getting started. Here are the current products on the market and how they compare with traditional target-date funds.
Amplify your voice by the way you invest.
A company's role in society has been re-defined. Consumers and employees expect their brands to articulate their values. Next, there will be a push for companies to stand behind what they say.
Your asset manager is casting votes for you. What are they doing with that power?
If you never really thought much about proxy voting, you should take a second look. The proxy vote is the only form of direct communication that most investors will have with company leadership.
Covid-19 Economic Shock ➡ What comes next
While we are not technically in a recession until there have been 2 consecutive quarters of slower than usual or shrinking growth, many believe we are in fact at the end of a very long bull market. More than that, COVID-19 can be characterized as a black swan - an unexpected, hard to predict event, outside the normal range of possibility, that will cause a severe contraction in the global economy.
Should you divest from fossil fuels in your investment portfolio?
Universities and pension systems are facing mounting pressure to divest from fossil fuels.
What investors can learn from PG&E's latest bankruptcy.
Henry "Hank" Paulson served as the Secretary of the Treasury during the 2008 financial crisis. Now he is warning about another financial crisis. This one, however, won't be caused by subprime mortgages.
Impact investing was virtually non-existent in Japan. That is rapidly changing because of one man.
Japan is a clean and modern country, but they are a laggard among other developed countries with regards to ESG factors.