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The role of bookstores in fighting white supremacy; storytelling for a good cause; and a fund-raiser for WriteBoston Nina MacLaughlin © Tyson Alan Horne Tayari Jones is part of the Pink Pages fund-raising event for the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital. What can a bookstore do? In the insightful, nuanced, and clear-eyed new pamphlet “The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores” (Biblioasis), Josh Cook, author and bookseller at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, raises powerful questions about freedom of expression and the ro...

“Similarly, incorporating other ESG [environmental, social, and governance] and sustainability considerations into the portfolio introduces tracking error risk relative to the performance benchmark, which may not be rewarded over the timeframe before the performance test ‘bites’.” It also said the reforms would push super funds away from a total portfolio approach and back towards a strategic asset allocation approach. “We would liken this to going back to an old technology, one that is inferior in return terms by around 0.5% to 1% pa,” it said. “In effect, the reforms shift a r...

What this writer learned about looking ahead and planning for disasters Bina Venkataraman, author of The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age, studies the art of looking ahead for solutions during dangerous times. It's a skill she honed while working on the Ebola Task Force for former U.S. president Barack Obama. Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Mar 20, 2020 1:58 PM ET | Last Updated: February 19 Bina Venkataraman, who worked on former U.S. president Barack Obama's response to the Ebola crisis, has investigated emergency planning and disaster preparedness.(Daria Bisho...

A second straight year of double-digit growth boosted global pension asset values to $52.5 trillion. Pension fund assets within the world’s 22 largest markets saw double-digit gains for the second straight year in 2020, climbing 11% to $52.5 trillion, according to the 2021 “Global Pension Assets Study” from Willis Towers Watson’s Thinking Ahead Institute. “In what was a highly tumultuous year, pension funds continued to grow strongly in 2020, underpinned by ongoing multi-decade themes such as the rotation from equities to alternatives and the growth of DC [defined contribution], now...