Guest Column: What’s In Your College’s Wallet?
Do you know what’s in your investment portfolio? If Trillium to manages your investments, you probably do. You have likely also thought about your values, and are confident that your money is working to have a positive impact through shareholder … Read more…
Dear Reader
Matt Patsky, CFA, CEO It is exciting for me personally and for Trillium to be involved in the emergence of Impact Investing as a vital piece of the larger Sustainable and Responsible Investing (SRI) industry. I recently had the privilege … Read more…
Upheaval in Global Automotive Industry: What Car Are you Driving?
Everyone remembers his or her first car. Mine was the 1951 Raymond Loewy-designed Studebaker Champion. My father was also a Studebaker owner. The 1951 model was a big hit with designers, and it had respectable, if not sensational, sales. But … Read more…
Business’s Enduring Image: Venality!
Milton Moskowitz I recently saw The Informant, starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, the Archer Daniels Midland whistleblower who exposed his company’s blatant conspiracy to fix the price of lysine, an additive given to feedlot cattle and other livestock. I … Read more…
Q&A With New Trillium CEO Matt Patsky
Your investment career started in 1984 at Lehman Brothers. How did you find your way into SRI? My first experience with socially responsible investing (SRI) came a bit early in life. Growing up I had a keen interest in the … Read more…
The Smart Grid Brings Smart Tips for Energy Use
Knowledge is power? Not according to Google and Microsoft. These firms and many others have recently rolled out energy efficiency tools designed for consumers to use on the emerging smart grid. The hope is that knowledge will bring less power, … Read more…
Why Holocaust Stories Still Have Meaning and Relevance
It’s been 64 years since the end of World War II but Holocaust stories in popular culture continue to cascade. Kate Winslet won an Oscar this year for her portrayal of a concentration camp guard in The Reader. John Demjanjuk, … Read more…
Strategic View: Should We Wish for High or Low Gas Prices?
While it’s easy to blame paltry U.S. gas taxes on auto executives and the craven politicians who work for them, in fact low gas prices are wildly popular in the United States, particularly among the poorer half of the income … Read more…
Bear Stearns Remembered
New Book Captures the Culture of a Wall Street High-Flier by Milt Moskowitz My stepson worked for 17 years at Bear Stearns before it disappeared last year into the bowels of JPMorgan Chase in the shotgun marriage arranged by the … Read more…
It Seems to Me: Never Mind the Financial Crisis, the Colosseum is Being Restored to its Original Splendor
As I write this column, the whole world seems to be coming apart. Unruly mobs of British youths rampaged through the streets of London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, looting and torching. A bill everyone agrees is inadequate emerged from a … Read more…