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Green Bonds Benefit Companies, Investors, and the Planet

Harvard Business Review

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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Deflation Will Take the Majority by Surprise

Coaching Tip

In this July-August Theorist , Robert Prechter uses Google searches to make a point about deflation: "When I typed ''Inflation for 2013,'' there were 47,700 results. On March 13th, when I put this slide together, I also typed in "Deflation for 2013." Bonds No Safe Haven from Stock Market Risk. MSN Money, July 22). Prechter Jr.:

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STUDY: Less Negative Spillover of Paid Parental Leave than Hyped

HR Digest

It has been introduced to decrease gender inequality and for bonding with children. The data was collected from 2001 to 2013. There are three states, California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, which offer paid family leave and finance it through payroll taxes that pay into the states’ existing temporary disability insurance programs.

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Apple's iPhone Pricing Strategy: Good, Not Great

Harvard Business Review

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. Prices for the 5S in the U.S. Verizon, for instance, has reportedly committed to purchase over $23.5

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Recently introduced reforms to give agricultural firms better access to finance aim to help farmers buy and import equipment to increase their output – and this could be a boon to global manufacturers.

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Apple’s iPhone Pricing Strategy: Good, Not Great

Harvard Business Review

As it always does, the company showcased a new and improved iPhone model — the 5S — which provides faster processing, a better camera, and James Bond-like fingerprint security technology. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. Prices for the 5S in the U.S. Verizon, for instance, has reportedly committed to purchase over $23.5

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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” There has been only one widely accepted and durable “model of asset price determination” for stock, bonds, and the like.

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