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Beyond Meme Stocks: Finding Sustainable Innovation April 18, 2021 Innovation has sparked great changes in the global economy, but defining it precisely is a crucial prerequisite to any subsequent analysis. Which companies separate the wheat from the chaff to lead new investing paradigms? In the upcoming webcast, Beyond Meme Stocks: Finding Sustainable Innovation, Kim Arthur, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Main Management, LLC; Zachary Hill, Global Macro Strategist, Horizon Investments; Matthew Bartolini, Head of SPDR Americas Research, State Street Global Advisors, wil...

Of Note This Week Here’s a look at vaccine innovation since 1880. As you can see, prior to the COVID-19 vaccine(s), which took less than 1 year to develop and get licensed in the US, the next fastest vaccine was Measles, which took 10 years! Content continues below advertisement Housing Starts Total Housing Starts posted a +5.8% M/M gain in December. They were driven by Single-Family Starts which posted a robust +12.0% M/M gain, their biggest monthly increase since June. Multi-family Starts fell -15.2% M/M but have only accounted for roughly one-quarter of Total Starts since 1959. On an abs...

December 22, 2020 As we wrap up a stellar 2020 for socially responsible investing, investments that track environmental, social, and governance principles may be looking at another big year. Linda-Eling Lee, global head of research for MSCI’s ESG Research Group, argued that after an “extraordinary year” in 2020, ESG-themed investments should maintain their momentum as interest in sustainable and socially responsible investing continue to gain in popularity, CNBC reports. “We were not necessarily expecting this to be the year where ESG really takes off, but clearly it has attracted a...

"We were not necessarily expecting this to be the year where ESG really takes off, but clearly it has attracted a lot of attention, both in terms of the companies and what they're doing from an ESG perspective [and] certainly from a flows point of view," said Lee, who is global head of research for MSCI's ESG Research group. Topping Lee's list of ESG trends to watch in 2021 is climate change. "Despite all the lockdowns that we've had this year, we're still on track for a world that is going to be too warm to sustain life as we know it, according to climate science," Lee said. "You're going to...