Even if you’re not ready to cut back on flying, there are other ways you can have a personal and positive impact on the environment.
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A series of deadly mass shootings in August have led to advocates and some voters yet again demanding action from lawmakers to help curb gun violence.
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Recent mass shootings have prompted major retailers like Walmart to reconsider their stance on ammunition sales and open carry policies.
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Californians frustrated by Congress’s failure to pass climate and gun control legislation have a potentially potent tool to produce the change they want: divestment.
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Several large mutual fund companies like BlackRock and State Street have espoused a commitment to investments that benefit all stakeholders –shareholders, employees, suppliers, customers and the communities in which they operate.
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Mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas have sent the country reeling.
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Mass shootings and the growing wave of socially responsible investing doesn't seem to be influencing behavior at one of the nation's largest mutual fund companies.
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Workforce data is poised to become the next battleground in investors’ fight for diversity disclosure as a group of investors representing $1.61 trillion in assets plans to send letters to 3,000 large global companies asking them to increase disclosures on workplace demographics and equity policies.
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Investors are increasingly expanding their attention beyond past performance to evaluate what the mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in their accounts are invested in.
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Investors who decide to put their money where their values are have a small but fast-growing array of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds to choose from.
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Among the $46.6 trillion of U.S. professionally managed assets at the end of 2017, $12 trillion – roughly 26% – was earmarked for sustainable investing, according to data from US SIF.
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Gender lens investing strategies have boomed in recent years, fueled by the #MeToo movement, increased awareness about how women often are treated, and a recognition that companies benefit when diversity and inclusion is fostered.
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Uber may be tech’s IPO headliner in 2019, but plenty of noteworthy warm-up acts are contributing to a banner year in initial public offerings.
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The bull towers 11 feet tall at its shoulder. A staggering 7,100 pounds of shimmering bronze, it stands mid-charge, feet splayed across the sliver of park called Bowling Green at the gateway to New York’s financial district.
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If you’re looking in your 401(k) plan for investments that back clean energy or gender and racial diversity, you may have a tough time finding them.
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President Donald Trump loves climate-wrecking coal and hates the climate-saving Paris Agreement.
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In the past few years, investors divested at least $6 trillion of assets from fossil fuel funds
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Gender inequality is in the spotlight like never before.
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Many of the congressional aides and federal agency staffers working to combat climate change are also investing for retirement in companies that are making the problem worse.
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It has been raining in Nashville. I don’t mean a little rain, I mean 13.47 inches of rain through Feb. 23, a mere 3 inches shy of the record monthly rainfall we received in 2010, which unfortunately flooded my home and many others in the area. Needless to say, I’ve been more than a little worried about the weather.
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