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…
Global equities made two new all-time highs in October, yet the MSCI All Country World Index’s (ACWI) finished down 2.24% on the month, bringing the global benchmark for stocks to up 16.00% on the year.
Perigon Wealth has once again been named to the San Francisco Business Times’ 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies list.
If you have your nest egg in accounts at Fidelity, that probably made your stomach lurch. The fact that those 77,000 people were only 0.2% of Fidelity’s 51 million customers is small comfort if you were one of the 77,000.
The S&P 500 is up nearly 20%, climbing a wall of worry, which includes wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, and the uncertainty of the upcoming presidential election.