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I used to watch people hand over their paychecks at the counter. Cut the extra loop. Some had savings habits that made me envious. Others blew through...
In early 2021 I ran a block of futures that moved maybe 800 million dollars a day. Not my money — I was a senior execution trader for a multi-strat fu...
So you’re pooling money with neighbors for a community fund. Solar panels. A co-op grocery. Maybe a tiny library. The money part is hard enough. But t...
You've spent years building a career that means something. Maybe you teach in underserved schools, design solar arrays, or counsel veterans. Then you ...
I walked into a bakery in Portland six months ago, looking for a croissant. I left with a thesis on investing with integrity. The baker, a guy named M...
So you want to work in finance—but not just any finance. You want karma-aligned investing: putting money into companies that do good, not just make mo...
So your investment circle just hit a wall. Maybe you found out one of your portfolio companies supplies parts to a controversial border detention syst...
Your side project was never supposed to be a fund. It started as a weekend thing—a community garden, a tool library, a mutual aid spreadsheet. Then pe...
Picture this: a banker with twenty years of deal-making and a baker who left the kitchen to teach financial literacy. They met at a coffee shop in Por...
So you want to invest in your community—not just with money, but with intention. You want a partner who sees the neighborhood the way you do: a web of...
So your portfolio is overweight in soul-crushing. You're not alone. The data: 65% of workers in a 2023 Gallup poll said they'd take a pay cut to work ...
So your karma fund—that carefully curated portfolio of companies doing good—just took a hit. Maybe a holding got caught greenwashing. Maybe a sustaina...
Marie, a 42-year-old nurse, and Tom, a 55-year-old carpenter, had never invested together. They shared a frustration: the nearest farmers' segment was...
The doorbell rings. It's your neighbor, holding a bottle of wine and a question: 'I heard you have an investment club. Can I join?' You smile. But ins...
Your karma-aligned portfolio is down 8% this year. The S&P 500 is up 12%. You begin questioning every decision: Did I pick the flawed funds? Should I ...
You are in a cramped co-working space at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday. Across the table sits someone who once raised $4 million from their own network to back ...
Five people can talk for an hour and agree on a $50,000 solar bond investment. Ten people? That same hour yields a document with four footnotes, three...