[ad_1] 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change. 2021. William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg, CFA. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Responsible investing, sustainable investing, impact investing, social investing, ethical investing, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing — labels abound for the space in which investors add nonfinancial considerations to […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
[ad_1] A lot of things have happened in the past few weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, so many that it might be hard for a casual observer to understand where we are and what’s available out there. So I would like to use my first post here to give you […]
[ad_1] Introduction Diversify, reduce fees, avoid active trading, and keep it simple. Most investors would be well-served by following the above framework. But while easy to recommend, this rubric is rather difficult to implement. For example, how does an investor diversify in 2021? Over the last 40 years, a simple […]
[ad_1] This is a second post on a series on how to use the current Ethereum tools to build smart contracts without needing programming experience. Download the latest version of the Ethereum Wallet, read the first part and let’s have fun! Creating a token is fun, but what is the […]
[ad_1] An investment policy statement (IPS) can be one of the most important documents for individual and institutional investors alike. Yet not all IPSs are of the same quality. Which of these statements better describes your IPS? A. The IPS is the backbone of our successful investment program. B. I […]
[ad_1] This is the third and final post on a series on how to use the Ethereum Wallet to create your own autonomous organisations. On the first post we detailed how to create a token, and on the second we shown how to generate a digital democracy controlled by these […]
[ad_1] Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk. 2024. Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz. Harvard Business Review Press. Good macroeconomic predictions and risk assessments are not easy to make, so maybe the problem should be reframed not as an effort in prediction but as a process […]
[ad_1] Special thanks to Gavin Wood for prompting my interest into abstraction improvements, and Martin Becze, Vlad Zamfir and Dominic Williams for ongoing discussions. For a long time we have been public about our plans to continue improving the Ethereum protocol over time and our long development roadmap, learning from […]
[ad_1] The environmental, social, and governance (ESG) fund industry reached a crossroads on 26 August 2021. That day, investigations by the SEC and the German regulator BaFin into allegations that Deutsche Bank’s DWS had overstated the claimed ESG integration of a portion of its funds were reported in the press. […]
[ad_1] Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for introducing the idea of by-block consensus and convincing me of its merits, alongside many of the other core ideas of Casper, and to Vlad Zamfir and Greg Meredith for their continued work on the protocol In the last post in this series, we […]