About the SEC Commissioner’s “Scarlet Letter” ESG Speech
One thing I’ve noticed about critics of sustainable investing is that they often seem to have no idea what they’re talking about. They concoct a caricature of ESG based on common misconceptions and use…
Webinar: Two Lenses, One Vision – Investing for LGBTQI and Gender Equity
As investors continue to make the case for LGBTQI equity, there is a practical and ethical mandate to fuse LGBTQI interests with those of gender lens investors who recognize the many benefits of establishing corporate…
Transformation and Impact Investing
On May 16, Erika Karp sat down with Laurie Lane-Zucker, founder of Impact Entrepreneur for a wide-ranging discussion of "transformation and impact investing" in an episode of Impact Entrepreneur's Luminarias webinar series.
Shareholder Engagement Goes Mainstream: What Does This Mean for Corporate Governance?
On April 1, Head of Research and Corporate Governance John Wilson hosted a panel discussion to address current topics in corporate governance, such as: Mainstream firms are joining the movement toward environmental, social…
Sustainable Protein Bites
In our recent report Sustainable Protein: Investing for Impact at the Nexus of Environment, Human Health and Animal Welfare , we pointed out that in developed countries, diet-related health concerns and less- or no-meat…
Global Market and Geopolitics: Changing Thinking in 2019?
In this panel discussion hosted by Asset TV, Cornerstone CEO Erika Karp joins Peter Rup, CEO and CIO of Artemis Wealth Advisors, and Wayne Yi, Director, Head of Manager Research at Massey Quick Simon, to…
New Guiding Principles for Opportunity Zone Investors
The U. S. Impact Investing Alliance and the Beeck Center at Georgetown University have authored a paper outlining a framework for Opportunity Fund managers entitled Prioritizing and Achieving Impact in Opportunity Zones…
How Women Are Disrupting the Finance Industry Business Model
"Whether it's the gender pay gap, board of directors seats and equal opportunity for career advancement, or greater access to private market capital funding for female-owned-and-run startup businesses, women are disrupting the status quo in…
How We Fight Climate Change Matters
This article originally appeared in Investment News on December 13, 2018. Sustainable and impact investors are set to intensify their decades-long support for action on climate change on the heels of…
Mobilizing Donor Advised Funds for Impact Investing
On November 26 we hosted a webinar recapping the key themes of our recent report Mobilizing Donor Advised Funds for Impact Investing . Cornerstone's Head of Impact Strategy, Katherine Pease, and…
Investing to Advance Racial Equity: A Conversation
We recently hosted a live video webinar to discuss ways in which investors can contribute to the narrowing of economic disparities through a dedicated emphasis on investing in underserved minority communities. Our panel, moderated…
Forced Labor: A Risk Investors Shouldn’t Ignore
In today’s economy, the goods we consume are often produced far from where they are purchased, successively changing hands along complex and opaque corporate supply chains. The International Labour Organization estimates that across these…
Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence: Panel at the New York Stock Exchange
On October 17, 2018, ROBO Global, LLC (ROBO) hosted a panel on robotics, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) at the New York Stock Exchange prior to ringing the closing bell. ROBO is an index,…
Creativity & The Arts: An Emerging Impact Investing Theme
When we at Cornerstone Capital Group first discussed the idea of exploring arts and creativity as an impact investing theme, our greatest challenge was narrowing the scope. To our thinking, creativity fuels every successful…
Investing to Sustain Innovation
Do we invest enough in creativity? The question may seem absurd in an era dominated by the “knowledge economy,” in which companies create value through ingenuity and expertise, while many of our most important emerging…
A Creativity Lens for Impact Investing: Upstart Co-Lab
The creative economy is large and growing. But until now impact investing has not focused on the creative economy in a significant way. Defining the Creative Economy The term creative economy was introduced…
From “The Arts” to “Creative Enterprise”: Perspective from the Philanthropic Sector
I have been thinking about and working in and around the role of capital in arts and creative enterprise for over 40 years. I have watched the rise of the terms creative economy…
Creating a Seat at the Table: Exponential Creativity Ventures
Media consumption is passive. At least, that’s been the dominant paradigm for the last century or more. Under this unidirectional model, a small number of people control both production and distribution, deciding in…
The Creativity Lens in Practice: LISC’s NYC Inclusive Creative Economy Fund
LISC’s newly launched NYC Inclusive Creative Economy Fund marks both a bold, new direction for our organization and a natural extension of our long track record of bringing technical and financing resources to low- and…
Artists, Cultural Enterprises and the Affordability Crisis
One of the most significant legacies of the housing collapse, which triggered the Great Recession of 2008-11, was the undermining of confidence Americans had in the venerable single-family home. For generations, owning a single-family…
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