Last week, I spoke at a meeting of the Chicago chapter of Women Advancing Microfinance along with Caroline Allen of Creation Investments. Here’s a recap of my speech: Essentially, we can think of social investing two ways. One is finding investments for people who want to invest socially, and the other is improving the environment,… [Read More]
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Some Challenges with SRI on Campus
A friend of mine serves on the sustainability committee of his alma mater, a large state university. At a recent meeting, he suggested that the committee look into sustainable investments for the endowment, and the committee representative from the board of trustees got upset. My friend asked me if I could send him information that… [Read More]
Guest Post: Mike Scanlin of Born To Sell on Covered Calls
Annie here: Today, I have a guest post on covered calls. As always, no trading or investment strategy is right for everyone, and past performance does not indicate future results. With that in mind, if you want to learn more about covered calls, Mike has some ideas for you. Covered Calls: Earn 1.5% Per Month… [Read More]
Two T’s in Buffett, Two E’s in Steel
Yesterday, I was looking up some articles about hedge funds in Fortune Magazine’s archives, and I had to use microfilm. Microfilm! The magazine’s web archives only go through the 1980s, and EBSCO’s only through the 1970s. (That’s an electronic database available through larger libraries.) I had forgotten how to use a microfilm reader and had… [Read More]
Emerging Markets Update: Egypt
Egypt has always been a frustrating market for emerging markets investors. With 80 million people and a tradition of education, it is larger and more established than most nations in the Middle East and Africa. Investors have long had the expectation that Egypt would be the Next Big Thing. The country has been independent of… [Read More]
