Tara Siegel Bernard at the The New York Times wrote a nice piece on how to green your investments, including with Sphere. Learn how divesting from fossil fuels is not only good for the planet but also good for your returns: https://lnkd.in/gEtcZW3q
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Over 80% of Americans are worried about climate change, but 99% of Americans don’t have the option to make climate-friendly investments. Sphere makes climate-friendly investing available to everyone, by making it easy for employers to offer climate-friendly options in 401(k) retirement plans. A number of family offices and institutions have already stoped investing in the fossil fuel industry, often citing worrying economic factors and a need to protect long-term value as a driving force for decisions, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Pension Fund, and the Harvard Endowment. Sphere helps advisors and employers demonstrate their commitment to fiduciary duty with a high-quality product at reasonable fees while satisfying a deeply personal desire of clients, without having to choose between the two. The Sphere 500 Fossil-Free Index tracks the Top 500 US companies by market capitalization and excludes fossil fuel companies to avoid stranded asset risk. The fund votes shares for the planet, not for the status quo.
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https://oursphere.org
Sphere的外部链接
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Sphere员工
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Doug Burnett
Chief Good Officer @ Buena
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Alex Wright-Gladstein
CEO and founder of Sphere. Co-founder of Ayar Labs.
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Rob Bennett
Strategic Advisor @ The Influencer Lab | Social Impact Campaigns
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Heidi Lindvall
General Partner and Investor at Pale blue dot - Investing in pre-seed and seed startups in Europe and US who are solving our biggest problems for…
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Check out our CEO's thoughts on how the election results will impact our mission to make it easy for everyone to invest their retirement savings in a climate-friendly way:
I woke up yesterday with the song Do My Thing by Estelle and Janelle Monáe bopping around in my head. It’s a more upbeat song than I expected to be humming on a day like yesterday. But as I went through my morning routine, I realized how appropriate it is. Let me explain: Sphere came into being during the first Trump presidency. As a result, resiliency is built into the fiber of its mission. In 2020, the Trump administration passed new rules saying that climate friendly investing was not allowed in 401(k)s. But: the rule clarified that employers could add any kind of investment option, including a climate-friendly one, if their decision was based on financial data points. Looking at history, we realized that excluding fossil fuel companies from investment portfolios has been a winning prospect over the time horizons that matter in retirement. We didn’t need permission to make climate-friendly investment choices. The financial data was on our side. Since then, the Biden administration has reversed the Trump-era rules and made it clear that climate-friendly investing is allowed in 401(k)s. But the reality is, our mission has remained unchanged, despite that rule update. In the years since we founded this company, excluding fossil fuels has continued to perform well over retirement-scale time horizons, even though oil prices had a short-term spike when Putin invaded Ukraine. So as I think about what to do in our new political reality, the lyrics of Do My Thing feel especially appropriate. I’m gonna keep doing my thing. Climate-friendly investing in 401(k)s makes sense, regardless of who is president. And no president can stop us from getting climate-friendly options in every 401(k). In some ways, it’s a good allegory for the climate movement at large. No president is ever going to be able to save us from climate change. Politicians respond to people. We need to demand a better future for ourselves, if we want to make that a reality. That was going to be true regardless of who won yesterday‘s election. I saw something on a walk the other day that made me laugh (click in to this post to keep reading):
Do my thing
Alex Wright-Gladstein，发布于领英
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Today is our three-year anniversary! To celebrate, we're offering the opportunity to invest in our company to everyone in our community. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gMUJrJjs Please note: investment involves?risk. We are 'testing the waters' to gauge investor interest in an offering under Regulation Crowdfunding. No money or other consideration is being solicited. If sent, it will not be accepted. No offer to buy securities will be accepted. No part of the purchase price will be received until a Form C is filed and only through Wefunder’s platform. Any indication of interest involves no obligation or commitment of any kind.
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We were on NPR! Taking us from a coal plant in Montana to Quakers protesting Vanguard’s investments in the Mountain Valley Pipeline, this was a fantastic piece of investigative journalism. We were honored to have Sphere featured as a solution. If you haven’t listened yet, type “Reveal” into your favorite podcast app and have a listen, or find the episode on the web here: https://lnkd.in/gBQc57Y4 Thank you to the entire team at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting for shining a spotlight on this important issue.
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Listen to NPR this weekend to hear an episode that will feature Sphere - we will be part of a deep-dive investigative journalism-style episode on their show called Reveal, where they will talk about how Vanguard and index funds are contributing to the climate crisis, and how we all have the power to use our money for good while also saving responsibly for retirement. Local show times for a few cities are: - San Francisco's KQED: Saturday, Sept 14, 4-5pm PT - New York's WNYC: Sunday, Sept 15, 11-12am ET - Washington, DC's WAMU: Sunday, Sept 13, 3-4pm ET Anyone can listen anytime on the Reveal podcast - sign up to get an email when the episode comes out here: https://lnkd.in/gnj5hpqK
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A great overview of the growing movement to get climate-friendly options in 401(k)s from Morningstar today - thank you Leslie Norton for sharing our work. https://lnkd.in/g8vJ7Xb5 #401k #ESG #ClimateAction
11 Steps to Making Your 401(k) Plan Greener
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Join us for a webinar about the Sphere 500 Climate Fund (SPFFX) on Mon, Aug 12 at 11:30AM PT / 2:30PM ET: https://lnkd.in/ghZc5dfh Click here for risk and disclosure information: https://www.oursphere.org/
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Sphere 500 Climate Fund. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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Check out our ur founder’s analysis of why markets are volatile this week:
What's going on with the stock markets?! I posted a quick update here - let me know what you think:
The markets are volatile: what to do?
Alex Wright-Gladstein，发布于领英
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Join us for a webinar about the Sphere 500 Climate Fund (SPFFX) on Wed, Aug 7 at 11:30AM PT / 2:30PM ET. The link to register is below. Click here for risk and disclosure information: https://www.oursphere.org/
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Sphere?is now on?ADP?and?Empower! Does your employer use?ADP?or?Empower?for its retirement plan??Sphere?has now been added to both, and adding it to your company’s 401(k) can be as simple as asking your company’s 401(k) advisor to add it to your fund menu. ? You can always?find the up-to-date list of platforms where Sphere is available here: https://lnkd.in/g3xw-DNJ
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