Skydiver Luke Aikins jumps 25000 feet without parachute
30 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in health economics Tags: Darwin awards
Ben Bernanke only owned tobacco shares when he became chair of the Fed
28 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in financial economics, health economics
During the transition period, 1947-1965, shares in the tobacco industry underperformed by 3 percent per year in the USA. Still, it was a temporary trend and the decades from the 1960s to the 2000s, when the health impact of tobacco was well known, saw tobacco companies outperforming comparable firms by over +3 percent per year.
Source: Responsible Investing: Does It Pay to Be “Bad”? – Credit Suisse.
Why boxing headguards may be making the sport more dangerous
14 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics, labour economics, occupational choice, sports economics Tags: offsetting behaviour
Is ethical investing a dud? @NZSuperFund @JordNZ @EricCrampton @GreenpeaceNZ
17 Aug 2017 1 Comment
in defence economics, environmental economics, financial economics, health economics, politics - New Zealand
Imagine how much more would be available for funding old age pensioners, schools, hospitals and kidney machines if you have a passively invested portfolio rather than an ethically invested portfolio. Virtue signalling is not free. Ethical investing significantly underperforms the market even if done by the best of the passive investing funds such as Vanguard.








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