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Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance factors, when integrated into investment analysis and portfolio construction, may offer investors potential long-term performance advantages.

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#MeToo Movement and Gender Lense Investing: Part II

Identifying 210 Companies that could face #MeToo Investment Risks Introduction This is the second part of our series where we explore the importance of how well a company performs on Censible’s Women in Leadership Ratings, and how its gender diversity rating correlates with positive stock performance as well as

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#MeToo Movement and Investing with a Gender Lens

In the age of #MeToo, screening gender diversity may help identify investment risk Awareness has grown dramatically during the past six months as women have come forward with stories of harassment and sexual misconduct by leaders in the workplace. Revered executives, once buoyed by their business ties, are now sinking

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Risky Business: Top 10 Corporate Crackdowns

What are the 10 largest corporate fines and settlements in history and could a data-driven approach have helped mitigate investment risk? It’s easy to portray "Big Business" as the bad guy. In the investing business, we usually try to find the good guys. Identifying companies that make

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Can Corporate Social Responsibility Change the World?

To be, or not to be… responsible Big corporations often shoulder the blame for contributing to a long list of societal ills. But what if those companies decided to actively solve these problems? What if ethical corporate behavior and shrewd business management led to a strong economy and a better

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News Travels Fast: Risk and Reward in the Information Age

You can’t keep a secret In the age of social media and the 24-hour news cycle, there's really no such thing as keeping a secret. Good news or bad, a juicy story can spread like wildfire. When it's a headline-grabbing scandal or disaster, news travels even faster, and corporate

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Investing with ESG Data

Extra special goodness: ESG is the secret ingredient ESG, like MSG, is widely used, misunderstood, and capable of giving some people a headache. Investing is like cooking: Most people aren’t great at it, but they keep slogging away, doing the best they can, because they can’t afford to