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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

However, there is an important nuance in that more players have exited than the limited number who entered over time due to high barriers to entry and exit. In the period 2010 to 2014 there was a boom in energy capex particularly into U.S. Ethical AI is a highly nuanced subject and is at the top of our engagement priorities.

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

Brown Advisory

In 2010, the materiality of climate change risk was still widely debated in political and corporate circles; yet today, the corporate world has largely come to agree that climate risk is dangerous and that it is good business to try and mitigate that risk. 8 Another study showed that one technology misidentified a number of black U.S.

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

Brown Advisory

In 2010, the materiality of climate change risk was still widely debated in political and corporate circles; yet today, the corporate world has largely come to agree that climate risk is dangerous and that it is good business to try and mitigate that risk. 8 Another study showed that one technology misidentified a number of black U.S.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number. billion dollars in AUM.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

Kathleen has been with Blackstone since 2010. MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right?

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Sorted Weekly Tweets

Aleph

Seems that safety improvements reversed around 2010. Do we really want payment networks to be ethics guardians? Mar 25, 2023 Lawsuits and legislation targeting sex trafficking are causing collateral damage: they are damaging the livelihoods of online sex workers [link] Suing Visa $V did the trick.

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Should the CFP Board police financial advisor “bad apples”? The debate continues! (Part Two)

Sara Grillo

I mean, how is the CFP Board even going through a process of due diligence, again, innocent till proving guilty in the sense when they have all kinds of disclosures, but at the same time, they’re publicly reprimanding 40 people, 80 people, whatever the number is, in a given year, out of the tens of thousands. Salaske: Right, now.

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