If you have funds to invest, you may just hand them over to your financial planner or wealth manager and say, “Just make sure my money is diversified.” But then she puts that into hundreds of stocks, some of which may represent companies with practices you don’t love. Have you looked at what specific stocks you’re in? When your money goes into those, you support those companies. Maybe some of those are companies that are known for using unfair labor practices, or polluting the environment, or ignoring countless sexual harassment allegations on the part of their employees. You can give your financial planner parameters so that she does not put your money in the stocks of certain unethical companies.
We often spend to potentially achieve happiness, but studies have actually found that the acquisition of stuff is not what makes us happy.
(Brand Makers News) — A recent Harris poll confirms that Americans are doing whatever it takes to cut back on spending. For some that means forgoing name brands for generics, for others it means letting their hair get a little longer before having it cut. In any case, here are a few of the consumer trends […]