There’s an old adage in investment circles that suggests that “the trend is your friend.”
For decades, megatrends have always set the stage for winning investments, whether they involved technological revolutions, government driven regulation or population demographics.
This has certainly continued to ring true with ESG investing, and not even the...
Impact investing stopped being merely a hobby in 2018 when it hit $30 billion. Now it’s a megatrend with a global pandemic increasing the momentum further.
It’s no longer about politics or morality. It’s about making money—plain and simple.
And it’s disrupted Wall Street to the point that BlackRock is now...
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered massive panic selling from February through March, killing the oldest bull market in stocks, while the economy collapsed into a deep recession.
Quick and decisive action by the Fed to lower interest rates and inject the market with more cash as well as provide a huge...
Robinhood, the fee-free trading app that promised to level the playing field for retail investors, has by now made good on its promise: The app hasn’t only caught on amid a global pandemic, but it’s become a powerful driver of the market itself, with Wall Street now scrambling to...
Reimagining the world and learning from it; that’s what today’s artificial intelligence advancements will allow us to do, from figuring out how to avoid disastrous wildfires and introducing carbon-mitigating ‘nature tech’ to reinventing mining so it works for us, rather than against us.
AI can build digital twins of real-word...
The solar energy wave is upon us, and in many cases the benefits of this emerging technology are starting to be realized. The Guardian reports solar energy has helped the State of Texas avoid rolling blackouts amidst a brutal heat wave that has sent energy demand through the roof.
“The...
Imagine driving a car that runs clean, and emits pure water from its exhaust pipe. That’s the promise that hydrogen offers as a fuel source, and these vehicles may be commercially available sooner than you think.Hydrogen as a Green Energy Source
Hydrogen is often considered a green energy source when...
This year was the breakout year for Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI).
Tech companies, according to McKinsey, are positioned to see the most disruption from Gen Ai, “adding value equivalent to as much as 9 percent of global industry revenue”.
When McKinsey conducted its latest Gen AI survey in April this...
ESG investing stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance investing. It is an investment approach that takes into account the environmental, social, and governance factors of a company when making investment decisions.
Environmental factors include a company's impact on the environment, such as its carbon emissions, resource usage, and waste management....
