Our investment thesis since early 2022 has been that the Federal Reserve will continue to raise rates and keep them at a high level until either inflation returns to target or “something breaks” in the… Read more »
With ESG and climate-focused investing becoming ever more prominent, increased SEC regulations around climate disclosures will hopefully help to increase corporate transparency and separate the legitimate from the greenwashed. Jeff recently attended the CERES Banking… Read more »
The history of environmental education parallels Earth Day and the modern environmental movement. Evolving from the Nature Study and conservation education, environmental education formalized in the late 1960s and gained traction in the 1970s. Climate… Read more »
In response to the economic, ESG, and market consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we made the decision to exit our dedicated Emerging Markets exposure across our mutual fund and UMA model portfolios on March… Read more »
In this week’s edition of TheIMPACT, Jeff is joined by Truman Seamans, Founder and CEO of Open Source Climate (OS-Climate). While most ESG and climate focused data is proprietary and not shared between providers, OS-Climate… Read more »
In this week’s edition of TheIMPACT, Eric Glass, Impact Investor and Advisor at Justice Capital, spoke with Jeff about how municipal bonds are uniquely positioned to create impact by addressing climate as well as social… Read more »
All eyes are on the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow next month. Our team, alongside climate activists and policymakers worldwide are fixated on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), or global emission reduction plans, under… Read more »
In our final edition of the Summer Series, we turn to emerging markets. For the RBC Emerging Markets Equity team, ESG is a critical component of their investment philosophy and process. This includes a detailed… Read more »
The Great Repricing: Financial Advice in the Age of Climate Change is going virtual. We’re moving to an immersive online experience, featuring the same speakers and sponsors (with more to come…). The event will now… Read more »
When it comes to the capital markets, the U.S. markets are the world’s largest and “among the deepest, most liquid and most efficient.”[1] Healthy, transparent markets are critical to ensure that capital flows to support… Read more »