December 24, 2020
While environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has caught fire in equities, bonds could present ETF investors with the next big thing. They can start looking at ESG-focused debt via funds like the
RBND seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return performance of the Bloomberg SASB ®US Corporate ESG Ex-Controversies Select Index that tracks investment grade corporate bonds issued by companies that exhibit certain ESG characteristics. Normally, the fund generally invests substantially all, but at least 80%, of its total assets in the securities comprising the index or in securities that the Adviser determines have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the securities that comprise the index.
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Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP), the leading global marketer of premium, innovative products across multiple brands and categories, today released the 2019 Sustainability Report, the ninth report for the Company. The report details the Company’s continued investment in environmental improvements as part of its No Time to Waste
® strategy and shows a renewed resolution to solve for social and environmental concerns through a focus on product innovation, minimizing waste and supporting thriving communities.
Tupperware’s report, Nurturing a Better Future, divides the company’s efforts into three strategic pillars:
Focus on the Environment, Focus on our Societies and
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While our attention is primarily on health issues during this
global pandemic, climate change remains at the forefront of issues
being addressed by governments, courts and businesses. This
bulletin summarizes some of the recent developments in Canada and
abroad.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES
In November 2020, the Canadian federal government introduced
Bill C-12, the
Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability
Act. The bill proposes to legally bind the government to
achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 and require the Minister of
Finance to report annually on key measures that the federal
Tupperware Brands Releases 2019 Sustainability Report, Nurturing a Better Future
Company’s ninth report highlights reinforced environment, social and governance commitments as well as progress to No Time to Waste®, company’s vision to significantly reduce food and plastic waste by 2025
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Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP), the leading global marketer of premium, innovative products across multiple brands and categories, today released the 2019 Sustainability Report, the ninth report for the Company. The report details the Company’s continued investment in environmental improvements as part of its No Time to Waste
® strategy and shows a renewed resolution to solve for social and environmental concerns through a focus on product innovation, minimizing waste and supporting thriving communities.
Are ESGs all That Responsible?
Written By: Jared Herzog
In the 5
th century BCE, Sparta once outright banned money. You may be thinking, as did I why on earth would anyone
ban money?
Spartan ruler, Lycurgus, known for his “morality” thought that theft, envy and overindulgence were byproducts of owning wealth. In other words, money and morality were antonyms. So, he illegalized gold and silver, effectively devaluing it. Then, he took property from wealthy landowners and divided it between all people because, “arrogance and envy, luxury and crime, resulted from this unequal distribution of property.” As the story goes, “merit, not money, became the only measure of a man s worth…[and] robbery and bribery vanished from Sparta instantly.”