Responsibility in Business Does Matter
October 31, 2019
In the spring of 1972, the heads of Alcoa, General Motors, and U.S. Steel formed Business Roundtable (BR) – a not-for-profit trade organization for big business in America. For the next half…
Philip Morris Altria Merger? Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me
September 27, 2019
In the beginning, socially responsible investment firms (SRI/ESG) avoided Big Tobacco because the product was damaging to individuals and society, and the industry’s targeting of the poor…
Perspectives from Bailard’s SRII Group: Pushing for Progress in Standardized ESG Reporting
July 22, 2019
Blaine Townsend, CIMC, CIMA, is a Senior Vice President and Director of Bailard’s Sustainable, Responsible and Impact Investing group. June 30, 2019 This year, Bailard celebrates its 50th…
Standardized Environmental Investing Reporting
April 9, 2019
Fifty years ago this January, there was a blowout on a Union Oil rig in the Santa Barbara channel. For nearly two weeks the oil kept coming. It soon blighted, clogged, choked and tarred the…
The Rise of Cobalt Demand and the Perils of Its Supply
October 23, 2017
Cobalt has been mined for millennia and used for a variety of purposes – from blue pigment to green vehicles. Today, cobalt is critical in the chemistry of the ubiquitous lithium-ion…