Five Reasons Why Airline Business Travel Has Permanently Changed

Businesses have learned that video platforms are stable and effective to replace some activities … [+] that used to require airline travel. getty Business travel for airlines has been the lifebl...

American Eagle Outfitters Moves The Needle On Sustainability And More With First ESG Report

American Eagle Outfitters has published its first ESG report with details on its progress in … [+] sustainability and more. Courtesy of American Eagle Outfitters American Eagle OutfittersAEO Inc...

Are Others Trying To Convince You To Play Politics With Your Retirement Savings?

getty It’s been the craze for several years now as the generational change in demographics highlights new marketing trends, but it has come under fire lately from several different directions. What is...

An Investment Risk By Any Other Name …

Rain and flood due to climate change ©2022 MSCI INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MSCI To ask whether climate change investment risk is a risk worth considering is to miss the point. Whether you, as an individ...

The Competition For Electric Vehicle Dominance

| Getty Images Key Takeaways Tesla currently dominates the EV market, but if GM can jumpstart EV sales, analysts say it’s poised to take over by the end of the decade. Despite being a company dedicate...

Lauren Taylor Wolfe says it’s just too risky for investors to ignore ESG amid recent pushback

(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) According to Deloitte, global ESG assets under professional management could be worth $80 trillion by 2024. But this growth in popularity ...

Big businesses trumpet ESG credentials. Scrutiny is on the rise

As the 2020s progress, discussions about climate change, the environment and issues related to equality and diversity are at the forefront of many people’s minds. The corporate world is no excep...

Biden’s ‘Kind Of Insane’ Energy Policies Have Created An Entirely Rational Investor Response

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 13: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers opening remarks during a plenary … [+] meeting with Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders and (L-R) Energy Secr...

What Did The Former BlackRock Executive Said on ESG?

An opinion article published on WSJ by Terrence R. Keeley, that was against ESG policies to drive investment. He said that ESG does neither much good nor very well. Keeley’s Opinion on ESG The former ...

Crypto Tech Firm BlockFills to Offer ESG Credits to Miners

Elliot David, head of strategy and partnerships at Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol, a company that is developing an on-chain product for miners looking to certify their energy use, said that “unles...

What Skills Should Finance Students Seek To Acquire In School?

What are the exciting areas in finance? What career paths should students consider? How do current economic conditions affect these career paths? What skills and courses should students focus on? New ...

Billion Dollar Deals Break Out Across The Shale Patch

construction and work trucks driving on road into Midland Texas getty Just when it appeared the news in the energy world could not become any more hectic, two multi-billion dollar merger deals among b...

ESG – A Defense, A Critique, And A Way Forward (part 3 now): Evidence-Driven Pragmatic Perspective

In part 3, I focus on questions one can ask CEOs and boards centered around corporate purpose, is myopia a real problem, how does the shareholder model need to be modified, why we set the cost of natu...

Commentary on Stronghold Digital Mining’s Q2’22 Earnings

August 30, 2022, 5:09PM EDT • 2 min read Quick Take Stronghold Digital Mining reported Q2’22 earnings on August 16, 2022  $SDIG currently trades at $1.40 / share, down ~93% from its IPO price of $19.0...

Mining Independence Is The Key To Energy Independence

Until recently, ESG investors avoided the mining industry. Fairly or not, to many it had a reputation for environmental degradation, child labor, political corruption and neo-colonialism. How to ̶...

Transparency Is Coming to Bitcoin Mining as Institutions Eyeball ESG

Institutions and financial companies are nervous about “the ESG black eye” that bitcoin has, Energy Web CEO Jesse Morris said The organization’s crypto token is up roughly 105% over the last two weeks...

How to buy an ESG fund now that Inflation Reduction Act is law

Simonskafar | E+ | Getty Images ESG funds have become more popular Steve Cicero | Photographer’s Choice | Getty Images Funds that allocate investor money according to ESG issues held $357 billio...

Reviewing The U.S. Climate Agreement – A $369 Billion Supercharge That The Clean Tech Industry Needs

Landscape with solar park and wind turbines in the background. Adobe Stock Last week, as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, U.S. senators triumphantly announced a $369 billion commitment to ...

Play The Market Rebound With These 10%+ Yielding Funds

stock trading with bull and bear getty One nice thing—and probably the only nice thing—about the 2022 market selloff is that it’s given us dividend investors an opportunity to grab 10% yields we can c...

The SEC’s Climate Proposal Sets Table For Netherlands-Style Farm Crisis In The U.S.

Farmers in The Netherlands are protesting its government push to remake traditional farms. Call it … [+] ESG policy run amok. Protests have spread to other countries now. Could this happen here?...

Airline Covid Stimulus Is Unrelated To Current Operational Disruptions

President Donald Trump signs, the CARES Act on March 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. From the $2 … [+] trillion stimulus package, U.S. airlines received $50 Million. Getty Images In government hallw...

Under ESG Investor Ideanomics, Electric Motorcycle Maker Energica Looks Just Beyond Building Bikes

The new Energica Experia electric motorcycle is fast, but trades away some horsepower for longer … [+] range from its large battery. Energica American ESG and electric transportation investment ...

ExxonMobil-Led Consortium Bucks Oil Industry Trends In Guyana

The Liza Destiny FPSO operating in deep waters offshore Guyana. ExxonMobil I wrote a few days ago about a new study from Rystad Energy which illustrates the scope and global importance of the developm...

Impact investing opportunities with Vanguard despite ESG concerns

It’s a fund looking to make money from green investing. The inclusive, actively managed Vanguard Baillie Gifford Global Positive Impact Stock Fund (VBPIX) is an environmental, social and governa...

What Is All The Fuss About ESG Ratings?

Investors are demanding ESG ratings for companies. Should ratings be applied to governments, too? getty The recent growth of ESG in finance cannot be denied. It was originally adopted as a tool to ens...

ESG funds are quietly buying oil stocks to chase gains after their poor performance in the first half — here’s the 1 big energy play they really like

ESG funds are quietly buying oil stocks to chase gains after their poor performance in the first half — here’s the 1 big energy play they really like ESG funds — portfolios that stress environme...

Does Gen Z Care About The Energy Industry?

Neha Bhat, University of Houston; Aparajita Datta, UH Research Assistant; Ramanan Krishnamoorti, UH Chief Energy Officer LUZHOU, CHINA – JUNE 3, 2022 – Teachers guide a team of the Luzhou ...

Water Solutions Company Touts ESG Benefit At Golf’s Final Major

One of Bluewater’s refilling stations at the Open Championship. Bluewater Cam Smith’s clutch putter and closing nine 30, a Sunday back nine score lower than any prior Open champion, dominated St...

Reforming Executive Compensation To Align With Stakeholder Value

How an organization values its stakeholders and considers ESG metrics often determines their … [+] employee retention, success and longevity in today’s corporate culture. getty Executive c...

Rising Social Unrest Over Energy, Food Shortages Threatens Global Stability

Police use water canon and tear gas to disperse the protesters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, July … [+] 9, 2022. Sri Lankan protesters demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign force...

Natural Gas, Nuclear Go Green In The EU

Euro-deputies take part in a vote on the revision of the EU emissions trading system at the European … [+] Union Parliament in Brussels on June 22, 2022. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP) (Photo by JOH...

Footprint Says To Ditch Your Plastic Packaging

Footprint’s molded fiber packaging is a direct replacement for current plastic containers. Image courtesy Footprint There’s a fascinating twist to the origin story of Footprint, a Gilbert, Arizo...