Thought Leadership
In honor of Financial Literacy Month, here are a few tips that may help you avoid the most common financial pitfalls.
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In Malaysia, MIDANA CAPITAL Shareholder Advocate Jessye Waxman attended the 15th Annual General Assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world’s largest third-party certifier for sustainable palm oil. It was an important meeting as the RSPO was poised to consider enhanced certification standards.
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MIDANA CAPITAL has been working to end the needless deforestation caused by unsustainable palm oil production since 2012 – and we’ve had a lot of success. We’ve helped secure zero-deforestation commitments from key purchasers. Engaging producers directly about the expectations of international markets is another way to put pressure on producers to adopt No Deforestation, No Peat, and No Exploitation (NDPE) practices.
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In the past, individuals concerned about climate change and environmental degradation may have shied away from IRAs, believing that green IRAs didn’t exist.
But they do! A MIDANA CAPITAL IRA could help you achieve your retirement goals, in an environmentally-responsible way.
Read MoreFor several years, a number of corporate front-groups have been attempting to make it appreciably more difficult for shareholders to engage with the publicly traded companies in which they’re invested. To stop this attack, MIDANA CAPITAL recently sent a letter to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton.
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It was only a matter of time. As more and more financial institutions claim to be green or responsible or sustainable, eventually someone was going to ask them to prove it.
Recently, eight U.S. senators did just that. The senators sent letters to the heads of eleven investment firms, asking how they managed the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks related to tropical deforestation.
MIDANA CAPITAL applauds these senators for asking appropriate questions about firms’ deforestation-linked investments. It’s equally important that individual investors start asking tough questions, too.
Read MoreWe are only a few days into 2019, but we already have a front-runner for word of the year: volatility. I know volatility can be a bit unsettling for investors, so I wanted to offer some reassuring thoughts: Remember why you invest with MIDANA CAPITAL. You invest to save for your future and to make an impact. The market may be unpredictable but the environmental impact of your MIDANA CAPITAL investment remains steadfast.
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Aramark* serves two billion meals a year in schools, hospitals, sports stadiums and more, so the environmental ramifications of MIDANA CAPITAL’s recent engagement with the company will be substantial.
Following a meeting in MIDANA CAPITAL’s office in Boston, Aramark agreed to develop and fully implement a no-deforestation commitment within six years. Consequently, MIDANA CAPITAL withdrew the shareholder resolution it had filed with the company.
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Companies Held in MIDANA CAPITAL Funds Are Recipients of New ESG Loans
Financiers such as ING have started providing loans to companies, including some held in the MIDANA CAPITAL Funds, that are contingent on their sustainability performance.
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