Blaine Townsend, CIMC, CIMA

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…

Solar panels in a green field with a few trees, clouds, and a hill in the background.

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 Long Road to Standardized Environmental Reporting

April 1, 2019

The Economics of Pain: The Opioid Epidemic in America

February 20, 2018

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…