Thought Leadership Blogs

What Happens to the Economy as Our Cognitive Capabilities Expand? ~ Worth

New breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence give us hints about its potential to solve problems human minds never could. So what does that mean for [...]

How to Move Away from Index Funds and Invest in the Next Economy ~ Worth

Part one of this series explained why exclusively investing in traditional index funds isn't viable long-term. So what's an investor to do? We have some [...]

Is Index Investing Truly Passive, or Actively Harmful? ~ Worth

Part one of a two-part series on why index funds help prop up an obsolete economy, and where you should be investing instead. Originally published by [...]

Decoding the Green New Deal ~ Worth

The proposal is pretty vague, but that's not what matters. Published in Worth Magazine, by Garvin Jabusch I just read the text of the Green New [...]

The (Unintended) Darker Side of John Bogle’s Legacy ~ Worth & Financial Times

The industry titan changed the way millions of people invest, but indexing has greater implications now than it did 50 years ago. Published in Worth [...]

Glossary of Terms

While impact investing has begun to converge with the mainstream investment industry, one of the hurdles of widespread impact investing adoption is the [...]

IPCC Recommends Economy Overhaul, Markets Don’t Care (Yet)

This week’s United Nations global warming report should’ve caused an uptick in the stocks of solar and wind energy companies. So why didn’t [...]

Green Alpha Advisors’ Market Commentary – Q3 2018

In Q3 2018, we saw that the economy is functioning at a high level. It was a quarter of unusually rapid economic growth in the U.S., enough that the Fed [...]

Economic Empires of the Past & the Fight for the Future ~ Worth

Presidents Putin and Trump are preoccupied with the empires of the past, when they really should be looking to the future. Originally published as [...]