News & Insights

Responding to Hurricane Helene – 13 nonprofits focused on delivering immediate assistance to those most in need.

Episode 1 of The Advisor View features an interview with Newground founder Bruce Herbert on his journey from studying Buddhism in Asia – to training on Wall Street – to launching Newground Social Investment.

On June 1st, we were proud to sponsor a benefit for the Trees & People Coalition, a local group working to make sure that ALL of Seattle’s people and neighborhoods enjoy the benefits of urban trees.

"Do you remember your first tree?" asks Nancy Herbert in this essay reminiscing on the beginnings of her lifelong love of these important beings.

Investors sent Goldman Sachs a strong message in favor of broad-based and standardized Pay Gap reporting, with a 30% vote FOR a shareholder proposal sponsored by Newground Social Investment at today's annual meeting.

Tonight we witnessed a powerful and historic dance performance, told from the perspective of Emmet Till’s mother – the mother whose grief begat the modern civil rights movement.

Whenever money moves it has an impact. To make the impact of your wealth more humane, fair, and sustainable, as an investor you need to know these 5 things.

I signed up for the discounts, but I'm staying for the advocacy AARP does to ensure no one ends up living in a chicken coop.

In honor of Black History Month, Newground hosted clients at a Rainier Club dinner to hear 1st-hand from Elmer Dixon, author and founding chapter member of Seattle’s Black Panthers, now a global speaker on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

News broke recently that the U.S. FTC had approved the creation of several Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds), a client asked for some guidance about the wisdom of including some holdings in these new funds in their portfolio.

Amazon talks a good game on climate, but supports anti-climate lobbying. A Newground shareholder proposal calls on Amazon to investigate this misalignment.

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has issued a new Sustainability Disclosure and labeling regime meant to protect retail investors from vague ESG claims by asset managers. It's time for the SEC to follow suit.

Newground has filed a shareholder proposal at Goldman Sachs that asks the Board to report on inequities in race and gender-based compensation among its employees.

Don’t be fooled by alarmist headlines attacking ESG investing. This handy guide from Green America exposes the myths ESG’s critics are peddling.

Join us for a half-hour call to learn about Calvert Impact Capital's Community Impact Notes program and highlights from their 2023 Impact Report.

Actor Tom Skerritt so loved his experience filming A River Runs Through It that now, 30 years later, he has created a documentary about the critical need to protect all our nation’s river systems.

We recently attended an inspiring presentation by Eileen Quigley, of Seattle’s Clean Energy Transition Institute, on the organization’s plan to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in the Pacific NW by 2050.

Balance is key, especially when it comes to investing… The idea that an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy could cover all three letters that make it up equally turned out to be wishful thinking.

This week Newground Social Investment joined a coalition of 45 institutional investors, fiduciaries, faith groups, and labor unions to strongly endorse a set of proposed revisions to the SEC’s rules that govern the shareholder proposal process.

In a victory for responsible investing, a federal judge denied a legal challenge by Republican-led states attempting to strike down a Department of Labor (DOL) rule on ESG investing in retirement plans.