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Ocean sustainability has emerged as a major concern for society and business in recent years due to awareness of detrimental factors that include ocean acidification and unsustainable fisheries. This whitepaper by Rockefeller Financial Equity Analyst Rolando Morillo, describes current and historical trends that present investment opportunities in technologies related to ocean sustainability.

This white paper collects research highlights from earlier papers by Generation Investment Management on five key subjects: Climate Change, Pandemics, Real Needs at the Base and Peak of the Economic Pyramid, Water, and Demographics.

This whitepaper illustrates how companies with cultures in which employees are properly incentivized through autonomy, purpose, financial compensation and other means can lead to stronger results.

Investing on the basis of fundamentals has long been a cornerstone for prudent investors. However, the rash of extreme geopolitical events over the past several years has tried investors' patience, riled portfolios and turned sound expectations on their heads. In this white paper, Greycourt & Co., Inc. examines the factors that have contributed to this dilemma and discusses investment strategies investors can implement to ride out the unusual market conditions in a thoughtful and disciplined manner.

The debate that began several decades ago over the merits and shortcomings of active versus passive investment management is ongoing. In this white paper, Abbot Downing examines the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

As of March 31, new rules regarding what constitutes a single-family office went into effect under Dodd-Frank's Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act. Those who do not qualify for a family office exclusion are now considered subject to regulation as investment advisors. This whitepaper looks at who the new rules impact and who qualifies for the exclusion.

The ongoing euro currency crisis has led to substantial declines in European asset prices. Measured relative to operating cash flow, European corporate assets are now selling at a 30% discount to the average of the rest of the world. While some portion of this differential can be explained by a weaker macroeconomic outlook, most of it is attributable to an increase in expected returns. Even if one assumes near-zero real earnings growth, the expected returns on European corporate assets exceed those available elsewhere in the world over an assumed five-year holding period.

The advanced needs and challenges facing ultra-high-net-worth investors require investment consulting strategies that are equally advanced. A mass market approach to asset management is not likely to provide such strategies, nor is an enhanced, or “super-sized” retail or high-net-worth solution appropriate. Rather, institutional quality investors must recognize that their financial position requires them to be treated like the world’s largest institutions.

How can art collectors protect themselves from fakes and forgeries? This article examines the differences between provenance and legal title, their bearing on claims of authenticity and what you should look for when making a purchase.

To earn returns in the regulated energy sector, investors will need to be aware of and understand the following items: supply and demand dynamics, interactions across the various commodity supply chains, the overall macro environment and impact on specific names and subsectors, regulatory and political environment, and operational and safety issues.