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Divestment as a Moral Imperative by Kirbie Crowe Investing in Carbon Drawdown by Sylvia Panek Weaning Off Wall Street by Hal Brill Harnessing Privilege for Justice by Kate Poole The Fight for Shareholder Rights by Michael Kramer What’s Up on Wall Street by Scott Secrest Download NI Newsletter Fall 2018
I have learned firsthand from my participation in social justice movements that privileged people in isolation cannot end wealth inequality or the close the racial wealth divide. As a wealthy white person in this country, however, that wasn’t what I was taught. When I was a student at Princeton University, I was told that poverty and
This article is highlighted as part of the 100th issue special, celebrating twenty-five years of quarterly newsletters. Just one year after this story was published, the crisis at the Mexico border has intensified. The federal government is detaining thousands of people—including large numbers of unaccompanied children—in migrant detention camps under conditions that visiting doctors have
Excerpted and adapted from The Resilient Investor by Hal Brill, Michael Kramer, and Christopher Peck The world in which we live is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. There’s an unfathomable intertwining of relationships that underlie the global economy and the physical world, making predictions virtually impossible. As financial advisors, it hasn’t been easy for us to
Stock markets were generally higher over the waning months of summer, with stocks of large US companies for the quarter up by 7.7%, small U.S. companies up 3.6%, and foreign stocks up 1.4%. Bonds, broadly measured, were flat for the quarter, though down 1.6% so far this year. Trade tensions have remained front and center
The frontline battle over the limits of corporate power is turning into a full-fledged war, as the legislative and executive branches of the US government accelerate their push to deregulate companies and curb shareholder influence. Shareholders like the ones we work with, of course, want companies to act responsibly and profit without exploiting employees, communities,
A little over one year ago, President Trump reaffirmed his intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accord. As if on cue, an iceberg the size of Delaware broke away from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, where temperatures have risen nearly five degrees on average over the past few decades. And
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