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Week 28: The All Electric Future & Battery Technology
GM recently announced strategic plans to convert its entire product line into electric vehicles by 2035. For context, GM sold 6.8m new vehicles last year out of 78.5m total, making them one of the largest vehicle manufacturers in the world. It’s a bold, but necessary move to create a sustainable and environmentally aware future. Given our increasingly electrified world, battery…
Week 27: Chinese IPOs, Global Ownership, and The AI Race
Briefing: With all of the recent news on Didi, the Chinese version of Uber, it’s a good time to revisit the challenges and opportunities related to investing in Chinese companies. Similar to the US, China is a highly sophisticated global technology leader and many investors have successfully participated in the rise of Alibaba, Tencent, JD, and so on. Investors have…
Two Truths and a Lie
In Two Truths and a Lie, three amazing storytellers share hilarious and heartfelt stories… the only problem is, one of them is lying! It’s up to our audience to sort the facts from the fiction. The theme this month is cringe. Our storytellers will share some of their cringiest and most awkward stories to celebrate those moments too uncomfortable to bear. But…
Nubiana Black Market
Nubiana is an open-air gallery and Black-owned marketplace showcasing the arts, crafts and foods of the African diaspora in Boston. The self-guided Nubiana tour will include work by muralists, photographers, illustrators, fashion designers, African artisans and florists. “Artist at Work” allows patrons and visitors to engage with artists, enjoy live demos, and purchase art at each event. Learn about the creative…
Week 26: The Dollar, Lumber and Cybersecurity
Briefing: There are three themes that rose to the top this week as we head towards a much-needed long Summer weekend. In spite of the many noisy headlines: the dollar is not on the verge of collapse, lumber prices are normalizing fast and there is an exponentially increasing need for cybersecurity. Let’s dive into each of these in turn below.
17th Annual Union Square Farmers Market
Join Union Square Main Streets and 30+ local food producers for the 7th Annual Union Square Farmers Market, a catalyst for vibrancy, healthy community, and economic vitality in Union Square. Now in a new location on Somerville Avenue between Carlton and Hawkins Sts., shop local in open air at this COVID-19 Prepared Market. Thanks to the City of Somerville’s partnership…
Week 25: Mission Driven Investing, Avoiding Headwinds and Considering the Stakeholders
Impact investing has gone through a revolution of sorts over the past few years. For decades, communities have voiced continuous concern that shareholders are myopically focused on short term profits at the expense of society as a whole. ESG (environmental, social, governance) investing was considered to be more of a marketing strategy or a charitable endeavor instead of a high…
Taking Stock of Mega Trends
Keeping track of megatrends is a valuable investment exercise to practice on a regular basis. Megatrends are not often covered accurately or with full context by CNBC or the front page of the WSJ. Daily financial media is incentivized less to broadly inform and more to create an immediate emotional reaction. These trends happen slowly until they become obvious and…
Bully Boy Distillers’ 10 Year Anniversary
Toast a decade of local cocktails at Bully Boy Distillers’ 10 Year Anniversary to be held Friday 6/11 – Sunday 6/13 at the Bully Boy Cocktail Garden. Lift a glass to 10 years of success with food trucks, throwback cocktails, banana rum cookies from Top Shelf Cookies, giveaways, and a raffle to win 10 bottles of Bully Boy booze, with…
