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• What makes the Yale investment model so successful? The heightened focus on alternatives is only part of it. (Chief Investment Officer)

• Investing in stopping climate change is trickier than it seems Assuming the switch from fossil fuels occurs, investors can choose to make a difference, or make more profits. This is the fourth in a series of Streetwise columns on sustainable investing. (Wall Street Journal) see also Wall Street’s green push exposes new conflicts of interest: Auditors, bond raters and others aim to profit by judging and advising on companies’ ESG scores (Wall Street Journal)

• Credit traders lack edge in Fed’s new regime: The corporate bond market used to be an early warning sign for the economy. This is no longer the case. (Bloomberg)

• Citadel Securities: How a Wall Street Outsider Became the ‘Amazon of Financial Markets’ The company is involved in more than 25% of U.S. equities trading and is on track to go public and is the focus of SEC scrutiny (Financial Times)

• Why more and more Americans are starting their own businesses: Workers are quitting their jobs to become their own bosses. (sound)

• What exactly are NFTs and what do they mean for art? Something weird is going on in the online art world. Many people are super excited about the cartoon characters of apes, cats, penguins, robots, skeletons, anime warriors, aliens and ghosts. There’s also a lot of talk about these making people rich and disrupting the traditional art market. (irish times)

• 3 little words to send a Lamborghini on the road The new navigation system What3words will be standard on the new Huracán models. It divides the globe into 57 trillion 10-square-foot squares and guides you to one of them. (New York Times)

• Energy Efficiency Ratings Do Not Actually Predict Energy Efficiency According to recent data, the UK’s highest performance rated buildings use far more energy than the lowest rated buildings. This difference shows the limitations of current green building standards. (Urban Lab + Green)

• back from the edge A Zambian park has reversed the national extinction of a precious and vulnerable species. Soon, it won’t be alone. (reason to be happy)

• Astronomers discover unprecedented object 4,000 light-years away: “It’s in the backyard of our galaxy,” an astronomer said of what could be a neutron star or a white dwarf — things that have so far only existed in theory. (Bloomberg)

Be sure to check out our Master of Business interview this weekend with David Conrod, Co-Founder CEO Focus Private Capital GroupPreviously, he founded the private equity group at Guggenheim Partners, distributing over $7 billion to general partnerships outside the firm.

‘Abusive’ meme stock awaits market calm to try for comeback

source: Bloomberg

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