When asked, why do you want to do impact investing? Most people respond, “to do well and do good,” or “to leave the world a better place,” or “to combat climate change with capital.”…
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“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, did it actually make a sound?” “If a startup produces unmeasured impact, does it produce impact at all?” (the answer is yes). In…
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Article and Source This week’s article is a speech made by Pope Francis on Saturday Oct. 16 at the IV World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM). An article review of the speech can be…
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What is ESG investing? ESG is (Environment, Social, and Governance). Simply, they are categories that help investors decide if a company is good for the world or not. So, an investor will look at…
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SEC Chief Defends Plan for ESG Disclosure Despite Republican Opposition Evie Liu Sept. 15, 2021 Minute 41:00 the conversation starts with an interesting exchange between Gary Gensler and Senator John Kennedy who suggests Gensler…
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Link to article Summary: A team of nonprofit leaders and venture capital investors have invested money in Novata, a new ESG data and rating agency. Alex Friendman, the founder, asserts that Novata is different…
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Summary: Under regulatory pressure, Asset Managers are removing the label “ESG-Integration” from their funds.…
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Article https://www.barrons.com/articles/green-stock-fund-moderna-tesla-ibm-51632255178?refsec=sustainable-investing This Fund Is Winning Big by Betting on Stocks That Help Humanity Lewis Braham Sept. 22, 2021 RESPONSE The fund (NEXTX) is reactionary in the sense that it is not creating the…
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In 2012, I returned from a summer in Peru where I interned at an impact private equity firm. When I returned, I took a trip to San Francisco and was staying at my sister’s…
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This essay will be a sort of thought experiment in which we lay out the landscape of emotional attachment, in a simplified form, and use that to understand how emotional attachment affects us. Imagine,…