A protest by the campaign network Vanguard S.O.S in Malvern, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Lisa Lake) Getty Images for POWER Interfaith In the US, the past couple of years have been a topsy-turvy time for i...
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Can Energy Realism Coexist With ESG
ESG Stock Photo getty One side effect of the collapse of cryptocurrency giant FTX has been to shine the spotlight on the movement that has been gaining significant traction over the last few years – t...
Dimon Highlights Need For More Oil And Gas Investment As Vanguard Bails On ESG Group
UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 22: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, testifies during the Senate … [+] Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled Annual Oversight of the Nat...
Damn The Torpedoes, America’s Billionaire Investors Go Full Speed Ahead On China
China has been called “uninvestable,” but billionaires continue to bet on the “Chinese miracle.” GETTY IMAGES 2022 VCG Billionaire Ray Dalio has managed money for Chinese clien...
Measuring climate investment risk is capitalism
Larry Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc. Christopher Goodney | Bloomberg | Getty Images Billionaire businessman and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the investing behemoth Blac...
Coinbase And BlackRock Cozy Up On Bitcoin Bandwagon
AFP via Getty Images Key takeaways Coinbase and BlackRock announced a new partnership Thursday to allow BlackRock clients to trade and manage crypto in-house The partnership combines services from Coi...
JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon Defends Stakeholder Capitalism Amid Conservative Criticism
Topline JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Wednesday became the latest finance leader to defend ‘shareholder capitalism’—an embrace by businesses of socially conscious and environmentally sustainable action...
Sen. Cruz blasts Larry Fink over ‘woke’ shareholder votes on climate
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol October 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images Sen. Ted Cruz blasted BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on Tuesday for so-ca...
Musk Lashes Out At ESG As The Brand Starts To Lose Its Luster
BEIJING, CHINA – OCTOBER 23: (CHINA OUT) Elon Musk, Chairman, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla … [+] Motors, addresses a press conference to declare that the Tesla Motors releases v7.0 S...
BlackRock Stock Has Slid. Director William E. Ford Scooped Up Shares.
BlackRock stock has tumbled this year, and director William E. Ford, the chairman and CEO of investment firm General Atlantic, scooped up shares of the asset manager on the open market. BlackRock (tic...
No Need To Rush Your First Crypto Investment
Crypto Photo: trustetc.com Institutional clients traded $1.14 trillion worth of cryptocurrencies on Coinbase in 2021, more than twice the $535 billion of retail investors, according to the Wall Street...
BlackRock’s Newest Investment Paves The Way For Digital Assets On Wall Street
Larry Fink thinks Russia-Ukraine war could accelerate the use of digital currencies © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP Five years ago, BlackRock’s chairman Larry Fink famously called bitcoin an “index of mon...
Why The Ukraine War Won’t Crimp Green Investing
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink (Photo by Mat Szwajkos/Getty Images) Getty Images BlackRock leader Larry Fink has sounded a call to corporate America to commit itself to net zero—that is, eradicating its car...
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Russia-Ukraine War Is Upending World Order And Will End Globalization
Topline The war between Russia and Ukraine has heralded the end of globalization, as the conflict has upended the current world order that has been in place since the Cold War and will have lasting gl...
Kerfuffle Between Texas And BlackRock Is Not As Simple As It Seems
Larry Fink, chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock Financial Management Inc., speaks … [+] during the One Planet Summit in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. Photographer: ...
Charlie Munger Expects Index Funds to Change the World—and Not in a Good Way
Charlie Munger doesn’t think Larry Fink should be running the world. Mr. Munger, the billionaire vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Warren Buffett’s business partner, said the rise of index ...
BlackRock’s Larry Fink Defends Stakeholder Capitalism In Annual Letter To CEOs
Topline BlackRock CEO Larry Fink on Tuesday defended the practice of ‘stakeholder capitalism’ which pushes businesses to embrace more socially conscious and sustainable practices, in his annual letter...
Calling Out ‘Emperor’ Larry Fink
When you’re 98 years old you can say things others can’t, so bravo to Charlie Munger for daring to speak an important but too muffled truth about today’s financial markets. “We have a new bunch of emp...