The “S” in ESG: Moderna vs ExxonMobil
It has been investment industry practice to carefully interrogate the methodologies used by ratings services to assign ESG ratings to companies and to [...]
Investing for Impact: What’s the Endgame?
By Garvin Jabusch, CIO
It seems simple: invest for capital preservation and growth, and also to have impact on an issue you care about. But in practice, [...]
Next Economics and the Climate Crisis
Next EconomicsTM refers to Green Alpha Advisors’ investment philosophy. It is the analysis of the pathway from the destructive legacy of a fossil [...]
Big Oil’s Bad Day in the Context of Portfolio Management
By: Garvin Jabusch
I was impressed this week by Graham Sinclair's thoughtful piece “Why 26 May 2021 Matters,” looking at “Big Oil’s Bad, Bad Day” [...]
This is How We Outcompete China
By Garvin Jabusch
China today is embarked on a program of standardizing and homogenizing its population (often by large-scale incarceration), to fit within [...]
Why Investing in Solutions to the Climate Crisis is the Ultimate Gender-lens Strategy, Part 2
“S” and “G” won’t matter if we don’t save the world
If you missed Part 1 in this series, where we discuss the climate crisis’s [...]
Why Investing in Solutions to the Climate Crisis is the Ultimate Gender-lens Strategy, Part 1
Even the "S" in ESG comes down to an "E"
By Betsy Moszeter
There is a widespread, persistent myth in investing circles that investing in solutions to [...]
To Thrive Long Term, an Economy must be Built (or Rebuilt) on Four Pillars of Sustainability
The first half of 2020 was a unique time in the markets and in the global economy. While the economy as a whole is struggling to adapt and transition to new [...]
Sustainability Means Justice
Our job at Green Alpha is asset management, not punditry. Yet, if we don't say something right now, that makes us another part of the problem, among those [...]
7 Questions for Catherine Greener, Founder of Greener Solutions
Green Alpha’s COO, Betsy Moszeter, and Catherine Greener work together on the Board of Directors for The Alliance Center. As they work together to [...]