News & Insights

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.

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.

A Newground "Learning Brief" on Private Impact Investing, w/ Bruce Herbert hosting presenter Josh Hile of Citizen Mint (formerly the Director of Investment Strategy & Research for Laird Norton Wealth Management).

We've fielded many questions about the implications of Washington State's new long-term capital gains tax – which was ruled constitutional by the state supreme court on March 24, 2023. In response, we've posted below a helpful FAQ put together by the WA State Department of Revenue that covers the most pressing questions in detail.

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.

What investors need to know: WA State Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of a long-term capital gains tax – a win long sought by progressive tax policy advocates.

With a ruling against Shell & majority votes against Exxon & Chevron, May 26th was a really big (bad) day for Big Oil.

There’s no future in believing there’s no future – we’re not booster rockets to be spent, but command modules moving ahead toward our own and society’s better outcomes.

Congress approved the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stability (CARES) Act on March 27th. The largest stimulus bill ever, it includes significant provisions for retirement accounts.

Amazon rigs the vote by using two different formulas when counting: one that favors the board election, and another that under-counts shareholder items.

Amazon's proxy engages in Formula Swapping – it uses a favorable vote-counting formula for management's board election, but a more repressive formula to count shareholder proposals. This inconsistent treatment disproportionately benefits management while depressing the tally on shareholder items. This puts stockholders at risk, and reflects the faulty logic that a Company can divine voter intent.