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1 posted on 03/26/2023 8:04:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just another way for them to get their grubby hands on OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY.

It’s all the rage now. GIBS-ME-DAT money!


2 posted on 03/26/2023 8:07:17 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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Those funds were taken from the taxpayer to begin with. It’s an issue for all of us.


3 posted on 03/26/2023 8:17:50 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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once their investments lose big money this will change in a hurry


4 posted on 03/26/2023 8:22:05 AM PDT by bigbob
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"..sending a message to Republicans looking to curb so-called “woke” investing:
our money, our choice."

From my research, esg investments tend to lose money:

On a one-year basis, 63% of global ESG products underperformed. This reflects the overall
underperformance of growth products, as 73% of these investments underperformed the index.
Jan 17, 2023

get woke, go broke, morons.

5 posted on 03/26/2023 8:27:47 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict At Large)
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“Our money, our choice,” until the pension investors mismanage the investment with ESG stocks and the taxpayers get stuck with bailing them out, because, heaven forbid, we can’t let anyone face the consequences of their actions.


6 posted on 03/26/2023 8:33:15 AM PDT by Savage Rider
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I discovered last week that my retirement fund had investments in SVB. It was not a lot, only .03% of its investments. But, that makes me wonder where else those funds are invested and exactly at what level my benefits are at risk from the ESG nonsense. That sounds paranoid, but given the “wokeness” of every institution, I wouldn’t be surprised someday to suddenly learn the entire fund had just become insolvent.


7 posted on 03/26/2023 8:41:21 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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Good - maybe they’ll go broke and starve and municipalities will stop showering lavish pensions on useless unionoid trash.

Sick of seeing people driving AMGs because they sat their fat asses in a suburban firehouse for 20 years.


8 posted on 03/26/2023 9:36:03 AM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/CA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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some proponents have resisted regulatory efforts to tighten criteria around what qualifies for the label

How about forbidding any considerations that don't go directly to the fiduciary duty to maximize the investor's return.

9 posted on 03/26/2023 9:55:38 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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What unions worry? Joe’s got their back.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-bails-out-the-teamsters-union-bailout-pensions-36-billion-covid-rochelle-walensky-11670535657


11 posted on 03/26/2023 10:18:18 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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Retirement funds for teachers and firefighters are caught in ESG crossfire

Well, the firefighters don't deserve that.

Unless they voted the way most teachers do.

13 posted on 03/26/2023 12:18:24 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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