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Private investment is needed to lift billions out of poverty, create jobs, improve the environment, adapt to the effects of climate change and to fill gaps in provision of education, healthcare and financial services. Yet in these markets impact investing is farthest from its potential.
The pension funds for Morgantown’s police officers and firefighters each suffered major losses last year because of poor stock market performance.
Republicans in state capitals across the country are targeting ‘woke’ investments through state pension funds, taking aim at BlackRock.
The Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System (OPPRS) and other members of a class action lawsuit have reached a $23.5 million settlement with Evolent Health.
The state’s pension funds have been directed to divest from financial firms such as BlackRock and UBS that supposedly boycott fossil fuels.
Digging into long-term transformative trends is key when trying to find future market leaders.
Payment processor Visa Inc. said Saturday that it plans to start separately categorizing sales at gun shops, a major win for gun control advocates who say it will help better track suspicious surges of gun sales that could be a prelude to a mass shooting.
Looking back over the second quarter and first half of the year, small-cap value active managers have outperformed their benchmarks by the widest margin of any active fund type, according to data obtained from Investment Metrics by Institutional Investor.
Lazard Asset Management announced the launch of its Lazard Thematic Inflation Opportunities Fund, intended to capitalize on the shift to a higher inflationary environment.
Most of the reporting from major institutional investors analyzed by strategic communications firm Luminous ‘still has room for improvement’ in sustainability, ethnic & gender diversity and addressing climate-change impacts.
