Traditional investing asks, “How can I get the most profit from my investments?” Values-Based Investing, or VBI, adds to this question by also asking, “How can I make the world a better place?”
After a tumultuous beginning of June for markets, investors hoping that a Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting and rate hike would calm markets were sorely disappointed last week.
The latest year-over-year Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures, a commonly used approximation of inflation, were released on Friday and the numbers came in higher than expected (see graph below).