A Free Market Manifesto That Changed the World, Reconsidered
New York Times, September 11: Milton Friedman’s libertarian economics influenced presidents and inspired “greed is good. ” So what did Friedman get right — and wrong? Today’s business leaders and economists weigh in. .…
U.S. Tech Stocks Decline in Worst Week Since March
Bloomberg/Yahoo Finance, September 11: “You see this kind of volatility when there is a vacuum of information for investors, and we don’t have good data,” said Erika Karp, founder and CEO of Cornerstone Capital…
Cornerstone’s Karp: How Wall Street Views the Candidates
Bloomberg TV, August 21: Cornerstone Capital founder and Chief Executive Officer Erika Karp says more fiscal support will be needed to boost the economy. She speaks with Bloomberg's Sonali Basak and Alix Steel on…
A Few Wall Street Traders Stayed When Everyone Fled the Office
Bloomberg, July 21: Between March and late May, the 56-year-old founder and chief executive of Cornerstone Capital walked to work from her Upper East Side apartment to her midtown office, a mask on her face,…
An Ethical Edge
CityWire, July 15: For Cornerstone Capital Group, companies with stronger ESG policies are better able to mitigate large scale risks – be they environmental issues, such as the cost of cleaning up years of…
The Post-COVID Economy Needs Female Entrepreneurs
Triple Pundit, July 13: Cornerstone Capital Group, an impact investing advisory firm, came out with a paper this week that details the ways female entrepreneurs uniquely supported U. S. economic recovery after the ’08 recession…
How Investors Can Address Racial Injustice
The New York Times, July 4: Companies are on a continuum: They are good at some things but not everything, said Erika Karp, founder and chief executive of Cornerstone Capital. That means…
Investors commit to racial justice action
ImpactAlpha, June 26: The pledge is signed by a wide range of asset managers, foundations and faith-based investors, including the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the Intentional Endowments Network, Cornerstone Capital, Trillium Asset…
Erika Karp: How I have invested in the road less traveled
ImpactAlpha, June 17: It feels like a hundred years ago that I first walked onto the vast trading floor of one of the world’s largest global investment banks. All I could think…
New Court Ruling Shields LGBTQ Employees from Discrimination
FundFire, June 16: The best asset managers have been taking action ahead of federal legislation, says Cornerstone Capital Group founder and CEO Erika Karp. This Supreme Court ruling will have a greater effect on those companies…
The unmasking of Corporate America
GreenBiz, June 15: “Your standard research analyst is not going to ask, ‘Please articulate your efforts to become an anti-racist, multicultural organization,’” Erika Karp, founder and CEO of Cornerstone Capital and a Wall…
Stocks Rally on Dip-Buying After Rout; Bonds Drop: Markets Wrap
Bloomberg, June 11: “I don’t think that much has really changed. It’s just investors are so trained to buy that dip, they are riding that now,” said Shahnawaz Malik, senior investment advisor at…
Fighting racism through investment
Axios, June 9: Cornerstone Capital Group, an investment adviser focusing on socially conscious investing, wrote a white paper in 2018 detailing investment changes portfolio managers and investors could make to help reduce the racial…
The Looming Climate Crash
Politico, June 8: Sustainable investing is all the rage these days, but it can be tough to get to the bottom of how well anyone is really doing achieving their environmental, social and…
How Green Is My Investment? It’s Hard to Tell
Politico, June 5: “Too many (investment) frameworks are heavy with flawed data,” Erika Karp, CEO of Cornerstone Capital, told POLITICO. Click here to read more
The Brief: World Within Labs’ Rostam Zafari joins the board of directors at Cornerstone Capital
ImpactAlpha, June 3: World Within Labs’ Rostam Zafari joins the board of directors at Cornerstone Capital Click here to read more
‘Greenwashing’ Potential Tarnishes Growth
Pensions & Investments, June 1: Investors shouldn't be ceding their role either, said Craig Metrick, chief investment officer for Cornerstone Capital Group in Denver, with $1. 2 billion under management targeted for environmental…
Global Financial Institutions Go Green
Politico, May 22: Cornerstone Capital CEO Erika Karp, a long-time proponent of impact investing, also casts doubt on the foundations of this year’s ESG investing trend. “There is no such thing” as…
Will Dividends Become Politically Incorrect?
Financial Advisor Magazine, May 7: “It depends,” said Erika Karp, founder and CEO of Cornerstone Capital Group, an impact investing advisory firm. “If we’re talking about government spending and government stimulus and…
Pandemic likely to accelerate push towards ESG investing
Professional Wealth Management, May 5: When considering ESG factors, governance is first among equals, says Erika Karp, CEO of investment firm Cornerstone Capital. "Governance is a proxy for quality, a proxy for…