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Does your portfolio have mutual funds that own fast-food or chain-restaurant stocks? How about paper products? Or food or snack companies? If it’s a broad-based stock index fund, the answer is almost certainly “yes.” And that means your portfolio includes companies potentially responsible in one way or another for one of the most pressing environmental calamities: deforestation.
In 2020, the World Wildlife Fund reported that the world lost 53% of forest wildlife between 1970 and 2018. Last year, while attention was focused on the coronavirus pandemic, the world lost 12% more primary forest than it had the year before, according to the World Resources Institute. And the IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on Climate Change and Land points out that agriculture, forestry, and other types of land use account for 23% of human greenhouse gas emissions a primary catalyst for climate change.
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When it comes to retirement accounts, most companies offer too many funds, writes my colleague John Rekenthaler. 15-20 options can intimidate some from starting a plan – and entice others to pick the most trendy, and volatile, performers.
For helping people invest their pensions better, Richard Thaler won a Nobel Prize. He wrote there were too many options even before fund selection. Employees were asked to choose whether to enroll in a plan or not. They were then asked at which rate they wished to contribute. Simple questions, to be sure, but questions that prevented about 20% of workers from getting into a plan in the first place. So, why ask them? Why erect the barriers? Drop new employees into a retirement plan, in specified funds at a specified rate, and be done with the decisions. If those investors wish to make changes,
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