Repost of article originally published by Leslie P. Norton on March 26, 2020 on Barrons.com
Companies with higher environmental, social, and governance factors have outperformed the broad market since its February peak, contradicting views that the trend is just a bull-market phenomenon.
In a new report, companies with better ESG risk profiles beat those with lower ones since the S&P 500 peaked on Feb. 19, according to a report by Sara Mahaffy, U.S. equity strategist at RBC Capital Markets…
Perigon Wealth welcomes three key hires to support the firm’s continued expansion through organic growth and acquisitions.
Expectations for global stocks were low for September, historically a challenging month for equity markets. Yet the MSCI All Country World Index’s (ACWI) made five new all-time highs as it gained 2.32% MTD return to bring a choppy Q3 performance to a strong 6.61% return.
With less than a month left until election day in a race that is expected to be tightly contested, it is normal to have concerns about how the results will impact you.
Global stocks suffered a steep selloff to start the month with the MSCI All Country World Index’s (ACWI) losing as much as 7.73% on August 5th before recovering to finish “an August to remember” at its all-time high, gaining 2.54% for the month bringing YTD returns to 15.97%.