Horizons’ CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Johann Klaassen, has been appointed to the American Philosophical Association’s Board of Officers as its Treasurer.
Horizons’ CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Johann Klaassen, who holds a PhD in Philosophy, has been appointed to a three-year term on the American Philosophical Association’s “Committee on Non-Academic Careers”.
This debt ceiling nonsense appears to be a manufactured crisis, which could and probably will be resolved pretty easily, and the best approach for all of us is to remain invested in our long-term portfolios.
Last week, our friends at the sustainability-oriented non-profit Ceres announced a new initiative — “Freedom to Invest” — to push back against the anti-ESG movement. On behalf of Horizons, and all of our clients, I gladly signed on.
March has been a wild and wooly month so far, with high volatility continuing to roil the global stock markets and central banks continuing to put pressure on bond markets. But the most interesting story of the last couple of weeks — and the one that’s sparked the most conversation with clients — is sudden turmoil in the banking industry.
Going “all-in” on the transition to a renewable energy economy now is the key to a secure, stable, and environmentally sustainable future.
After twenty-five years with the company, Founding Partner Kimberly Griego-Kiel has resigned her positions as CEO and Chief Compliance Officer of Horizons Sustainable Financial Services, Inc., effective December 31st of this year.
Over the last year or so, there have been a flurry of big transactions in the financial services world. It seems like every time we turn around, some big Wall Street firms are buying one another, investment banks are buying client service companies, massive brokerage firms are “merging”, and so…

The last month has been close to the wildest ride of my professional life. I have to rank it right up there with my experience of working with my clients and the world in the days following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. I don’t say that lightly. It dawned on…