Impact Investing Influencers

Reprinted from the Katusa’s Investment Insights newsletter Most corporations in the S&P 500 are in the business of actively destroying their own capital. It’s their only option. They have to hold cash and cash equivalents, their “treasury”, as a buffer to make payments and...

The Gates Foundation announced this week that it was committing $2.5 billion through 2030 to accelerate research and development focused exclusively on women’s health. It will support the advancement of more than 40 innovations in five critical, chronically underfunded areas — particularly...

In the latest episode of Dollars & Change: The Expert’s Guide to Sustainable & Responsible Investing, host duties were reversed as Terra McBride, Chief Marketing Officer at Prime Capital Financial (PCF), the parent company of Earth Equity Advisors, interviewed me during PCF’s Prime Week. Terra...

How should energy transition investors and policymakers think about the role of technologies like green hydrogen and energy storage systems, and what policy frameworks are needed to de-risk investment in them that will accelerate the transition? This is especially true of supply...

Is Apple still an AI early-adopter or a fast-follower? As an industry analyst who follows Apple, AI and wireless, allow me share my opinion on where I think they are heading. Listening to CEO Tim Cook, I believe Apple [symbol link=AAPL] may...

More than half of all Americans, 53%, say the cost of groceries is a major source of stress in their lives today and another 33% say they feel at least minor stress over rising food prices, according to a  poll out this...

I was recently sent an article by a co-worker discussing how circularity is becoming an essential business strategy. My first thought: What is that? My second thought: If it has to do with fashion, count me in. So, after some needed research,...

The cost of high-end, breakthrough medications traumatizes patients and their families. According to USAfacts, “national spending on personal health care has increased 1,629% since 1980 — more than $3 trillion.” Medicaid, Medicare and private health insurance bare much of the cost, but...

Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble said Friday that it was upping its goals on to tame greenhouse gas emissions, aiming to reduce Scope 1 and 2 emissions 65% by 2030 compared to a 2010 baseline, an increase from its previous goal...

Reprinted from the Katusa’s Investment Insights newsletter “Keep taking pictures,” Buffett said. “Every picture you take makes me more money.” He’d famously purchased $1billion of silver the year before 1998. At the time, that was one-quarter of the global mine supply of silver. And...