Market Updates
Charting COP-26, take 2, November 3, 2021
Jair Bolsonaro isn’t there either. While the President of Brazil is not in attendance, the country is still represented, but one is forced to wonder what the degree of commitment is when the boss chooses not to attend for “strategic” reasons. On the positive side of...
DISCOVERING YOUR PURPOSE AND CHANGING THE WORLD’S PERSPECTIVE ON CAPITAL
Discovering Your Purpose In this episode of Next Wave Leadership, Lawrence Ford, renowned entrepreneur, author, and spiritual leader, sits down with Dov Pollack to discuss his real-life journey towards self-actualization—and how you can find an enlightened...
Charting COP-26 and The Global (In)Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture, November 9, 2021
Charting COP-26 and The Global (In)Action Agenda for Innovation in Agriculture, November 9, 2021. On November 6th, we got a clever hashtag mention -- #climateshot – and a “Global Action Agenda”: Increase investment in agricultural research and innovation to create...
Charting COP-26 and the Path to Zero, November 5, 2021
Charting COP-26 and the Path to Zero, November 5, 2021. Yesterday a consortium of mostly Anglo and European countries signed a statement affirming a commitment to “deliver sustainable, green and inclusive economic growth to meet the challenge of decarbonising our...
Charting COP-26 — Is that a pie in the sky?
Today at COP-26 we received a declaration entitled “INTERNATIONAL AVIATION CLIMATE AMBITION COALITION”. Commercial aviation is a non-trivial contributor to GhG emissions. The widely cited statistic is that, if the industry were a nation, total output would rank it 7th...
CONSCIOUS CAPITAL PERSPECTIVES | JULY PORTFOLIO UPDATE
In one of the first material tactical adjustments we found necessary to make in 2021, we have significantly reduced our exposure to Emerging Market equities across our ETF-based portfolios. We did not make a commensurate adjustment in our ESG series portfolios, and...
CONSCIOUS CAPITAL PERSPECTIVES | APRIL PORTFOLIO UPDATE
Conscious Capital Perspectives | April Portfolio Update It has been just over a year since stocks around the world began to recover from the pandemic-driven sell off. Stocks in the US found their bottom around March 23, 2020. Since then, returns have been...
CONSCIOUS CAPITAL PERSPECTIVES | MARCH PORTFOLIO UPDATE
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2021 PORTFOLIO UPDATE Equity markets around the globe were on edge as February came to a close. The technology-laden NASDAQ fell nearly 7% from an all-time high on February 12th. The weakness in equity prices came despite very accommodative comments...
CONSCIOUS CAPITAL PERSPECTIVES | MARCH PORTFOLIO UPDATE
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2021 PORTFOLIO UPDATE Equity markets around the globe were on edge as February came to a close. The technology-laden NASDAQ fell nearly 7% from an all-time high on February 12th. The weakness in equity prices came despite very accommodative comments...
CONSCIOUS CAPITAL PERSPECTIVES | FEBRUARY 2021 PORTFOLIO UPDATE
JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2021 PORTFOLIO UPDATE Put simply, we found ourselves intrigued by capital market behavior in January. After robust equity market gains towards the end of 2020, particularly in US stocks, some pull-back was justified. Higher interest rates (the...