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On the day when Blackstone joins the S&P 500, a moment of huge pride for our company, I found it really interesting to learn that the index traces its origins back 100 years to 1923 when it covered just 233 companies. The daily index was launched in 1926 tracking 90 companies. It was only in 1957 that the index as it is known today was introduced and expanded to 500 companies. More information below from Reuters:
Key dates and milestones in the S&P 500's history
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In honor of Black History Month, here’s to leveraging the #stock market 📈 for #reparations. Black #History Month serves as a reminder of the historical injustices faced by the African American community. The concept of reparations, as defined by the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA), involves repairing, healing, and restoring a people who have been injured due to their group identity. This post explores a pragmatic approach to reparations, utilizing the stock market and leveraging other people’s money. Reparations, as a demand for justice and a principle of international human rights law, involve obtaining necessary resources from entities responsible for historical injuries. In the context of leveraging the stock market, this approach seeks financial redress to empower and uplift the affected community. Utilizing the stock market as a tool for reparations involves strategic investment and leveraging financial mechanisms. This approach does not rely on the traditional models of seeking reparations solely through legislative channels but explores alternative avenues for economic empowerment. Did You Know? Pooling resources is a key aspect of leveraging the stock market for reparations. Collaborative investment funds, backed by individuals and institutions committed to reparative justice, can amplify the impact of financial initiatives aimed at healing historical wounds. But, here’s something to think about? While leveraging the stock market for reparations presents a practical approach, it is not without challenges. Risks associated with market fluctuations, regulatory considerations, and ensuring funds genuinely reach the intended beneficiaries need careful consideration. As you make investment decisions, consider deeply where your investments go because money 💰 is power. Empowered people empower others 🖤 My Black Is Powerful #BlackHistoryMonth #ForTheCulture https://lnkd.in/expRD8r8
Socially Conscious Investing - Can it make you money?
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In the spirit of independence, it's essential to voice our opinions, and I'm thrilled to have this platform to share my thoughts. Your opinions matter, just like mine, so don't hesitate to explore Thereviewstories.com and share your own reviews. Together, let's celebrate the power of choice and expression this Independence Day! 🗽📣 #happyindependenceday #independenceday #15august #thereviewstories
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How can policymakers and the philanthropy sector respond to anti-DEI litigation? The Brookings Institution is hosting a panel this Friday, June 21 at 10am titled, "Supporting Black-Owned Businesses to Drive Economic Development," with our CEO Erika Seth Davies, Tynesia Boyea-Robinson of CapEQ, and Stacey Bowers of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Join virtually or in-person for this conversation about keeping Black businesses growing and thriving in this climate. Register: https://lnkd.in/eaPiS6UK #business #entrepreneurs #dei #esg
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How do corporations shape the legal and political environment in which they operate? We combine business history and political economy to address this question in a paper just published in Academy of Management Perspectives co-authored with Minyoung Kim and Jun Ho Lee (both at University of Kansas). Enjoy!
The Endogenous Creation of a Property Rights Regime: A Historical Approach to Firm Strategy and Governance Structure
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They didn't teach us this about this audacious American history fact in school. Here it is: During summer of 1776 in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, John Adams, (the future second U.S. president), entrusted his hard-earned family fortune to his wife, the fiery, robustly independent, and intelligent Abigail Adams. Back then leaving the women in charge was unheard of! John's safe and secure recommendation for Abigail was to invest in fertile farmland - a wise choice in uncertain times. However, Abigail was not cut from the same cloth as most women of her era. She was progressive and possessed an uncanny ability to see potential where others saw only risk. Abigail chose to march to the beat of her own drum, and did not do as her husband recommended. Instead, she went out on a limb and bet on the war bonds! It was an audacious, very risky move at that time given how things were going for the Revolutionaries. Fast-forward a few years - the United States wins the war and Abigail reaps the fruits of her brave venture. Her investment in war bonds yielded a staggering 400% return, quadrupling the Adams family fortune! What I love about this story is that Abigail Adams is a profound reminder of 🔥 The power of discerning investing, 🔥 The courage to embrace discomfort and take calculated risks, 🔥 The extraordinary outcomes that can come from such risk. Would you be willing to make such a risky investment if entrusted by your partner or spouse? If you enjoyed this post, give it a 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 👍 and 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗲 for more financial facts and tid-bits!
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Our MD, Lydia Idem will be at Stanford University today for a panel discussion on “Redesigning Finance”. She will be sharing lessons from two decades of experience as a Black woman in Investment & Finance. 💪🏽 #womeninfinance #stanford #fmcapitalgrp
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These thoughts all seem right but for now of course are just assertions. I am looking forward to you developing them with facts to prove the argument, and then telling us how to make it better. We do seem to be in crisis, and understanding at root level is critical to remediation.
If you want to understand where American capitalism is now and what you might do to help move it in a more humane direction, you need to look under the hood.
Beyond Trump (why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 1)
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Of corporations and communism… The germs for many large ideas originate in London, as I discovered on a walk home after lunch. First up was the Charterhouse, near Farringdon. Thomas Sutton, whose tomb you see below, founded the almshouse and school in the early 17th century. A generous and civic-minded fellow, he created a corporation known as ‘Sutton’s Hospital’ to hold the assets and carry on the almshouse and school in the future. He died in 1611, and his relatives immediately challenged the corporation’s existence, saying it wasn’t a legal ‘thing’ (and the assets should go to them). Fortunately, the court (led by Sir Edward Coke) upheld the corporation’s existence, and Sutton’s Hospital Case gives us the foundation for the idea of a company - a fictional body that has all-important ‘legal personality’. It helps create the legal backbone for our market (or capitalist) economy. Contrast that with the Three Johns, just up the road in Islington (2nd photo). My fact-finding mission to the establishment revealed that it was here, in 1903, that about 50 Russian revolutionaries met and (when sufficiently lubricated) had a long chat about the future of the Russian empire. Apparently there was strong debate and disagreement, and at the end of the session two factions had emerged: the main one, the Bolsheviks, being led by Lenin. So this is where Bolshevism began. We don’t know whether Lenin knew of Sutton’s Hospital Case, and if so what his views were on Sir Edward Coke’s jurisprudence. In any event the idea of the corporation has stuck, and corporations are one of the law’s most useful inventions. Newton taught us that every force has an equal and opposite force, but in this case history suggests one idea has greater power than the other, as any Old Carthusian will surely attest…
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