Alternative Investments Career Profile
Alternative Investments Career Overview Traditional investment managers typically buy and invest in assets such as stocks, bonds, money markets, or some combination of the three. By contrast, alternative investments managers invest in non-traditional assets, such as private equity, commodities, real estate, or infrastructure, or they invest in stocks, bonds, and money market instruments but use...
What Influences Exchange Rates?
What are Exchange Rates? An exchange rate is the relative ratio that one can exchange a unit of one currency for a unit of another currency. For example, the USD/CAD exchange rate is the quoted rate of exchanging one US Dollar for one Canadian Dollar. This ratio is determined by market forces that look at...
Carbon Offsets
What are Carbon Offsets? Carbon offsets serve as “compensation” to an organization or an individual that invests in a project or solution that will reduce future emissions or sequester existing CO2 from the atmosphere. Once created, however, carbon offsets are also an asset class that trades freely on voluntary carbon markets. An offset’s “value” is...
Carbon Markets
What is a Carbon Market? A carbon market is a place where the management teams at organizations can buy and sell different instruments that relate to greenhouse gas emissions. The two types of instruments that are traded are carbon credits (often referred to as “allowances”) and carbon offsets. Additionally, there are two types of carbon...
Impact Investing
What is Impact Investing? Impact investing is a strategy that seeks to create a specific positive impact or outcome. What sets it apart from pure philanthropy (like cash donations) is that impact investing includes an expectation of financial returns that are (at least) comparable to market returns. Categories of intended impact include (but are not...
