The Progress Group, a Denver based consulting firm, announces the launch of The Greater Good Program, a comprehensive business development initiative designed to bring triple-bottom-line thinking to entrepreneurial businesses from under-served communities throughout the Front Range. To celebrate the launch, leaders and entrepreneurs from the community will gather for a half-day kick-off event on November 12, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Mi Casa Resource Center at 360 Acoma Street, Den… Continue

Like all employees in the financial services field we have to deal with the security practices implemented by the SEC. These services can be very costly if you try to do it yourself because having even the smallest violation can cost your company millions of dollars and even jail time. Since being hired here at Martin & Son’s I’ve had the responsibility of keeping our office secure while trying to keep the costs down. This can be very tricky because in order to keep the cost down we hired a… Continue

Like most Ops managers, I’ve come across and dealt with my fair share of IT disasters. I’ve gone the route of hiring an in-house staff, only to realize that it exhausted my budget and half the time I was paying for employees to sit around and wait for a disaster to strike. I’ve also gone the route of hiring an outside company to run my IT support, again only to find that I was being overcharged at every turn and I had no REAL immediate support, more like we were put into a “Queue” and when our n… Continue

Firm’s Research Concludes That Optimizing for Diversification Outperforms Traditional Risk Approach

Gravity Investments (Gravity), a premier financial engineering firm responsible for the Gsphere visual asset allocation platform, today issued a paper on portfolio optimization and the comparative value of optimizing specifically for diversification.

The paper, entitled How True Diversification™ Preserves Capital, concluded that optimizing portfolios for diversification provides a positive impac… Continue

B Lab, the nonprofit that certifies B Corporations (“B” is for benefit), will publish the first B Corporation Annual Report in collaboration with Sustainable Industries, the business source for leaders of the New Economy. The report will include a summary of B Lab’s progress to date in building a new sector of the economy through the growing community of certified B Corps, creation of a new corporate form, and a new rating system for imp… Continue