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Farmland and Private Equity

By Leadership News

An alarmist article has been making the rounds on the Internet this week – “Half of U.S. Farmland Being Eyed by Private Equity”, by Carey L. Biron (www.ipsnews.net). In the wake of rising commodity prices, it seems that speculators are buying up farmland, hiring farm management companies to run the…

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Carbon Divestment or Engagement?

By Leadership News

Which is the more effective tool in making change? Johann Klaassen & Kimberly Kiel As investment advisors who specialize in “sustainable, responsible, impact” investing (SRI), most of the biggest fossil-fuel companies do not appear in our client portfolios. The ecological devastation caused by the largest of those companies is impossible…

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