Triple bottom-line investing is consistent with fiduciary responsibilities from a portfolio investment diversification perspective for several reasons.
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Through the popularity of ADRs, ETFs and other forms of international investment diversification, the ability of U.S. investors to own shares of companies based abroad has expanded considerably in the last decade.
Banking scholars also argue that Islamic law blocked indigenous financial modernization in Muslim countries because of an inheritance system that restrained capital accumulation, inhibitions on pooling resources that discouraged investment diversification, and a traditional aversion to the concept of legal personhood for corporations, which hampered the development of financial entities.
Since employees are already dependent upon their employers for living wages, furthering the economic dependency of employees upon their employers by offering company stock as an option within a 401k is not defensible from an ethical, moral or even investment-diversification perspective.
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The IEA and the European Commission are working to promote market improvements, greater flexibility, diversification and investment.
Asset allocation began to use liquidity as one more overlay, stealing the spotlight from diversification and investment styles.
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Failing to offer adequate diversification of investment options.
Second, temperate forestry is well known to add positive diversification effects to investment portfolios.
But the combination of success and cheap capital that fuelled asset prices tempted companies into impetuous investment and ill-judged diversification.
Just as minimal diversification makes any investment portfolio more risky, a maker of laundry detergent, cosmetics or soft drinks could be flirting with danger when a high percentage of sales are pushed through a single retailer.
But traditional privately placed partnerships can be very attractive, since you probably want an expert to select and manage the investments for you (certainly you do with art), and you usually want diversification that pooled investment delivers.
This implies that asset class diversification should always be a part of our investment management plan, while we remain mindful of both country and sector diversification.
They help to boost investment at home and allow the diversification of pension provision into overseas economies.
He was applauded by many for the strategic diversification move from shipping investment on the high seas to investing on land.
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Yet by buying shares in a mutual fund ie, joining with thousands of other investors they get wholesale rates, instant portfolio diversification, and professional investment advice.
Diversification is a valid investment axiom, but when trying to achieve excess returns or alpha, there is such thing as too much of a good thing.
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Much of Agilent's risk management, and future investment, rests in product and geographic diversification.
Investment in bonds as part of portfolio diversification should be done via a mix of sectors matching your income needs, risk tolerance and interest rate outlook.
Petitioner decided to keep her two New York residences, partly upon the recommendation of her investment advisor to retain these properties for investment purposes as part of her portfolio diversification.
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Limit the number of investment options to 15 or fewer with enough diversification.
My approach to diversification is quite different from conventional investment wisdom.
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To this end, we have agreed to prioritize the expansion and diversification of our bilateral trade and investment through nondiscriminatory access to our markets based on international rules.
Caps on the number of charters in a state drag down performance as much as lax oversight, because they cramp the diversification of the market and discourage investment.
One of its key conclusions: Investors looking for opportunity and diversification in emerging markets should consider active investment strategies, rather than passive ones.
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Interestingly, 44% of those that do view it as an investment are buying and holding art more for the diversification and capital protection, rather than the returns, while 41% said they would use their collections as collateral for loans.
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Wendy Trevisani, associate portfolio manager with Thornburg Investment Management, says E-Trade will succeed with its diversification from pure trading into banking and lending products.
Alternatively, the investor could invest in a private equity fund, which would allow him access to investment professionals with demonstrated abilities and past success, together with the benefits of increased diversification across a number of investments.
Plus, many investment advisory firms are now recommending emerging market debt to their retail clients as a means for diversification, and, better yet, actual income.
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Given all the under-performance in these diverse asset classes, investment advisors have taken longer looks at other options such as managed futures and alternatives as other potential diversification options.
But, he says, the situation is now different to how things were several years ago, as the government needs the investment money to finance its huge privatisation agenda if projects like "Russia's Silicon Valley" and economic diversification are to work.
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