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Hearing From The Source Of Social Investing
Bill Hortz: From your perspective as active leaders in social investing, what are your biggest concerns on the space right now? Cornerstone (Erika Karp): I do see a critical gap in the set of tools being used—in the ability to systematically measure impact. The lack...
The New Tech Bubble Born out of the Bull Run
Vincent Deluard, the director of global macro strategy at INTL FCStone, believes that Silicon Valley's business model and tech stock valuations are "at the beginning of a massive unraveling," according to another recent story in BI2 . He points to the collapsing...
What’s the biggest risk for ESG investing? Ignoring it
"It's not ESG investing, it's just investing done in more meticulous, conscious and deeply analytical ways," said Erika Karp, founder and chief executive of Cornerstone Capital, during her opening keynote presentation. Read more here
What you need to know about ‘gender lens’ investing
"These are issues that are way more complex than who’s at the board and who’s in leadership." -Erika Karp Read more here
Cornerstone Launches Impact Fund
The Access Impact Fund is aimed at investors who want “competitive financial returns and positive impact”. The fund is designed to deliver long-term capital appreciation, the RIA said in a statement today. Read more here
Cornerstone Capital seeks to prove active managers can deliver impact in public equities (podcast)
“When we looked around to find these solutions for our clients, it didn’t exist,” Cornerstone Capital Group’s Erika Karp said in an interview for ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast. “Global thematic impact didn’t exist, so we decided to build it ourselves.”...
Winning Over Mom-and-Pop Do-Gooders Is Aim of New Mutual Fund
Cornerstone Capital Group is moving ahead with its first stock fund for individual investors with social and environmental goals. It will focus on companies in sectors including water, fintech, environmental and economic solutions, and global sustainable growth,...
INTL FCStone’s Abbasi Says the U.S. Cannot Remove Trade Bargaining Chip With China
INTL FCStone Global Market Strategist Yousef Abbasi discusses the latest on U.S. China trade and the phase 1 deadline. He speaks with Sheryi Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia." Watch the full segment
‘Digital gold’ bullion product set to shake up gold market
First, the “tokenisation” of the asset makes it much more easily transferable and therefore tradeable. Second, when compared to exchange traded funds (ETFs) that have grown in popularity as a cheap way of accessing asset classes, gold included, it has the advantage...
China soy, palm oil markets surge on swine fever spillover
“Soyoil and palm are getting a lot of interest. Fundamentally, since soybean crushing is slow due to (African swine fever), there isn’t much soyoil and that’s driving up prices for soyoil and palm oil,” said Darin Friedrichs, senior commodity analyst in Asia at...