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Business reporter with 5 years of experience in print, digital and broadcast. Recently graduated with a master's degree in business and economic reporting from New York University. My work has been published in The Guardian, Insider, Financial Planning and CNBC. I'm experienced in social media, SEO and video reporting.
Carbon-accounting can help companies cut down on emissions. Tech startups Sinai Technologies, Carbon Analytics, and Watershed collect and share emissions data to help firms be more sustainable.
ynette Medley wasn't usually shocked when a client divulged they'd done something illegal. As a sexual health therapist in Philadelphia, she focused on supporting vulnerable low-income people who engaged in risky and even criminal behavior.
Fossil fuel companies get all the attention from investors seeking to further climate sustainability, but the $8 trillion food and agricultural industry is also rife with extractive practices that damage the environment.
The top 200 "carbon clean" companies in the world have outperformed the fossil fuel industry in terms of "sustainable" revenue and share price over the last six years. A by the shareholder advocacy group As You Sow and Toronto-based media and research company Corporate Knights showed that from July 2016 to January 2023, shares of the "cleanest" 200 companies generated a total return of 91.21%.
Investment funds run by women are rare in the wealth management industry - a fact that has remained unchanged for two decades. New research by Investment Metrics, a Confluence company, found that only 13% of 242 active manager portfolios across the world had a woman in the lead or co-lead position as of last December.
Collectibles ranging from Lamborghinis to vintage Patek Philippe wristwatches have long been popular among the very wealthy. Now high-end luxuries and collectibles are becoming accessible to ordinary investors. But there's a twist. Instead of buying an Old Masters drawing at auction and hanging it on your mansion's paneled wall, investors purchase "shares" in a collectible owned by a third party.
A real estate cooperative that just made its fifth land acquisition with the aim of averting gentrification and allowing Oakland, California residents to stay in place. Or a solar energy system for a rural school in coal-rich Appalachia that's struggling with energy costs.
As the first to learn English in her family when they moved to the U.S. from Colombia, Catalina Franco-Cicero shouldered the responsibility of writing household-expense checks for her mom. Today, as a financial advisor at Tobias Financial Advisors in Plantation, Florida, she taps into that early experience to help clients from Latin America who have immigrated to the US.
