The acronym “ESG” has been popping up quite frequently throughout the finance world as of late. Just last Tuesday on March 16th , State Street Global Advisors, the world’s third largest asset manager, reported billions in net inflows into one of its new ESG-screened, exchange traded funds (ETF) for the month of January. The same day, a Wall Street Journal piece entitled “The Tidal Wave of ESG Funds Brings Profit to Wall Street” made the charge that “sustainability has been good for Wall Street’s bottom line”, citing data from FactSet that showed ESG-focused ETFs had higher average fees than standard…

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Over half a century ago, South Korea claimed a backwater economy that was closely compared to those of Indonesia and Kenya, both of which were floundering economically. Now, South Korea is ranked 12th in terms of GDP and is a highly sought-after trading partner. In fact, as of this year, South Korea is engaged in as many as 15 Free Trade Agreements (FTA), with 11 more being negotiated. Alongside the United States, China, Hong Kong, Mexico, and India, South Korea holds much of the attention of foreign companies looking to take their export market overseas.

The Fundamentals

Before familiarizing yourself with the…

On January 9th 2020, the South Korean National Assembly passed several consequential amendments to the country’s most important pieces of data privacy legislation: the Personal Information Protection Act (‘PIPA’), the Act on the Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection (‘ICNA’), and the Act on the Use and Protection of Credit Information (‘Credit Information Act’). The amendments, which began to take effect August 5, 2020, are widely regarded as part of South Korea’s pursuit of an adequacy decision from the European Commission, under the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’). …

This Wednesday South Korea began making preparations for its first coronavirus inoculation drive. With AstraZeneca vaccines stored and ready for distribution at a warehouse right outside of Seoul, we could see the vaccination of South Korea’s front-line healthcare workers rolling into high gear as early as Friday.

Laying the groundwork for wide-scale vaccine roll-out and distribution that (if all goes smoothly) that the government hopes will result in the immunization of 10 million high-risk people by July and position the country to reach herd immunity by November 2021, South Korea (and its market) may soon make its long awaited, post-Covid…

You probably clicked on this blog post for one of the following reasons: the allure of my remarkably witty title or your sense of bewilderment as to what the primaries precisely are. If it’s the first reason, and you are actually quite knowledgeable on the topic of our presidential nominating process, I’m flattered that my inventive title caught your eye. If it’s the second reason, you’ve come to the right place! In this post, I will attempt to distill the intricate U.S. primary election system.

What are the primaries?

Let’s start with the simplest of all questions: what are the…