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” Improving riskmanagement. Climate change, water scarcity, and poor labor conditions in much of the world increase the risk. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.
companies in 2014 and show no signs of letting up in 2015. Vanguard holds more than $3 trillion in assets, making it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest country in GDP, ahead of France. and with half of its fund assets indexed, it is not going anywhere if it does not like its portfolios’ strategies or results.
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