The divestment train has left the station. It’s hard to pass a headline that doesn’t include the words ‘divestment’ and ‘foundation’ in the same sentence these days. And rightfully so: As technology and innovation in renewables start to take hold, the good old boys at the coal mining and fossil fuel companies are starting to […]
As we enter the home stretch of 2014, we can at least say that it has been a somewhat “boring” market quarter, but sometimes boring is better than the alternative. For the 3rd quarter, the S&P 500 was flat with a .6% increase. The Dow Jones was up 1.3% and the NASDAQ up 1.9%. For
It is amazing to us. We run across client investment portfolio statements and there it is smack in your face-a Morgan Stanley account with all of the holdings in Morgan Stanley mutual funds! The next day, we see it again. An Ameriprise client with a 35% position in one Ameriprise mutual fund!?! Ever seen the
Inside Economy Companies Committed Education: Risk vs Return Shareholder Activism Non-Profit of the Quarter Economy With 2013 behind us, let’s take a little time to digest and reflect back on the year and the 4th quarter. Stocks sort of barreled through the year, notwithstanding a fairly large crisis in Europe along with the complacency of
As we enter 2014, many of us are now pondering a new year’s resolution. Some of us may improve our diets by eating more of that organic rainbow chard or scrumptious kale while others may consider getting up a little earlier to sweat it out at that 6:00am bootcamp or crossfit class. One resolution that
2nd quarter 2013 The Economy With temperatures unfamiliarly hitting 100 degrees here in Northern California to end the quarter, it’s safe to say that the weather is a bit hotter than the past few week’s market performance. That being said, this year’s performance is nothing to sneeze at. The close of this quarter marks the
