21st Century Investing
Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change
Recommendation
If you find yourself shaking your head at Wall Street’s myopic obsession with quarterly numbers, or shaking your fist at free-market acolytes who disavow any social responsibility on the part of corporations or investors, this is the book for you. Investment advisers William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg make a case for a new type of investing. In their “system-level” approach, allocating assets isn’t about short-term profits but about making societies and economies more just and, ultimately, more stable. While the authors don’t offer a precise playbook for changing the prevailing mind-set on Wall Street, they do explore the many institutional investors that are placing their values first.
Summary
About the Authors
William Burckart leads the Investment Integration Project and is a fellow at the High Meadows Institute. Steve Lydenberg is the founder of the Investment Integration Project and a partner at Domini Impact Investments.
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