Tag: investing
Women’s Economic Losses Mount During Pandemic, Highlighting Investment Need
Pandemic highlights need to invest more in women utilizing so-called “gender lens”
Investing in women has proven lucrative while boosting women’s socioeconomic standing...
Japan’s GPIF, World’s Largest Pension Fund, Joins U.S., U.K. Funds to...
Pension funds representing about $2 trillion in assets under management are committing to sustainability investingThe move brings some of the world’s largest...
Roiling Markets Test Strength of Investors’ Sustainability Commitment
Market gyrations testing investors’ commitment to ESG investingA stock-market rout may be the first critical test for sustainability investors and funds, many...
Elliott, Other Activists Take Page From Big Banks, Demand Target Firms...
Activist investors are now demanding that companies they hold shares in commit to sustainability.More than 90% of millennial investors aim to customize...
Robinhood Hits 10 Million Accounts as Demand Rises for Commission-Free Trading
Robinhood, the commission-free stock trading platform valued at $7.6 billion, again showed itself to be bright spot in the fintech industry as...
Risk Management Takes New Sense of Urgency as Climate-Driven Disasters Boost...
The number of natural disasters has been increasing for decades, but lately, driven by climate change, managing that risk has become a...
KKR Said to Approach Walgreens Boots for Potential Largest Buyout Ever...
KKR, which last month said profit slipped on costlier dealmaking, proposed buying Walgreens Boots Alliance as the private equity firm pushes deeper...
Want to Release the Animal Spirits? Break the Glass Ceiling, Study...
Key Takeaway: Gender diversity can pay off for investors as companies that...
Impact Investing Has Opportunity, Research Deficit, Study Says; Others Say Concerns...
The premise of impact investing is simple: Investors deploy capital in ways that return a profit, and simultaneously make the world a...
Crypto Trading App Robinhood Wins U.K. Approval, Wants to “Democratize Finance...
Robinhood, a U.S.-based owner of a stock-trading app, is heading across the Atlantic as it’s been granted a license to operate by...
Swell Investing, PacLife Impact Platform, Closes After Inability to “Achieve Scale”
Pacific Life Insurance’s impact investing platform Swell, which sought to align offerings with the U.N. Sustainability Goals, said this week it would...
Tastytrade’s Tom Sosnoff: “We’ve chosen the non-traditional marketing direction: the good...
Sound Businesses: Profiles of companies and business models we are keeping an eye on.
Tom Sosnoff, Founder and Co-CEO of the online financial network tastytrade, says...
iBuyer Real Estate Startup Raises $220M in Equity and Debt to...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
It’s a common dilemma. A homeowner wants to buy a new...