Clean Yield Insights
Q1 2026 Market Outlook: Navigating in Stormy Seas
By Liz Levy, CFA, Managing Director of Investment Research — not written by AI!
To paraphrase a meme joke making the rounds, what a year the last three months have been — or even, really, the last three weeks. While…
Growing Multigenerational Value: Investing in Forests for a Sustainable Future
An Earth Month Reflection on Investments in Climate Change Solutions
By Kofi Kodua, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager
When we think about climate change solutions, we often picture wind turbines, solar panels, or electric vehicles. But one of the most…
A New Kind of Meat
By Elizabeth R. Levy, CFA
In late 2025, as a result of our membership in the U.S. Sustainable Investment Forum (US SIF), I was invited to attend a meeting for company founders and investors organized by the Association for Meat,…
Quarterly Market Outlook: January 2026
By Liz Levy, CFA, Managing Director of Investment Research
When trying to think about what our Outlook could possibly be in early January, I reread what I wrote last quarter, much of which remains true. I said, among other things, that “trying to discern…
Clean Yield in Conversation: Market Outlook October 2025
Clean Yield in Conversation features team members in dialogue with timely updates and analysis of the financial markets. Listen to this episode with insights from Liz Levy:
A scene from The Wizard of Oz captures our team’s general feeling at the end of…
Quarterly Market Outlook: Crossroads
By Liz Levy, CFA, Managing Director of Investment Research
In trying to think about how to describe our views on the economy right now, one image keeps coming back to me. As Dorothy sets off down the Yellow Brick Road,…
Mobilizing to Protect the Freedom to Invest Responsibly
Photo: Clean Yield’s Dorigen Hofmann, second from left, and members of the Freedom to Invest coalition.
By Dorigen Hofmann, Partner and Portfolio Manager
On September 16, I joined 30 investment managers, proxy voting advisors, impact investors, and other social investment…
Speaker Series: Fraud Prevention – What to Look For & Tips for Individuals
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On November 20 at 4 p.m. EST, Clean Yield will host a webinar on fraud — something that about one-third of Americans experience every year.…
Clean Yield in Conversation: Shareholder Advocacy & Proxy Voting 2024-25 Year in Review
Clean Yield in Conversation features team members in dialogue with timely updates and analysis of the financial markets. Listen to this episode with insights from Liz Levy:
In this recording, Liz summarizes the Clean Yield Shareholder Advocacy and Proxy Voting Year in Review…
Renewable Energy Impact Investing: Navigating Clean Energy in the Age of Policy Uncertainty
By Kofi Kodua, Managing Director
As we move through 2025, one thing is clear: The world of clean energy and impact investing is facing a significant shift. The recent passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA) has introduced…
Hill Advocacy Day 2025 — The Impact Investing Community Presents a Unified Voice
Photo: Clean Yield’s Liz Levy, third from left, and other members of US SIF with Senator Ed Markey
By Elizabeth R. Levy, CFA, Managing Director of Investment Research
I’m trying to think of a Clean Yield-ish pun comparing the humid,…
Q2 2025 Market Outlook: Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ or REM’s ‘End of the World’? We’re Sticking with Resilience
By Liz Levy, CFA, Managing Director of Investment Research
The S&P 500 ended the second quarter at a new all-time high, so is it really the “Best of All Possible Worlds”? Then again, as of early July, we still have…