Here is a quick update from Greg Garvan:   “The Capitalists Dilemma” is a book being written by Clayton Christensen, author of ‘The Innovators Dilemma’.  A few quotes from a recent interview with Clayton….” It looks like the economy is emerging from the recession in an exciting way, but we’re not creating more jobs or [...]

Social investor and worldwide cooperative Oikocredit released its 2012 figures today, and has recorded another positive year of social and financial results. We achieved record levels of loan approvals, reaching $309 million. We also gained 3,000 new investors around the world, achieving gross inflows of $81 million and bringing our total investor body to 48,000 [...]

3/1/13 City of Charleston’s Green Business Challenge Awards PRESENTED and KICKS OFF Year Three   Charleston, SC—The 2012 Green Business Challenge concluded its second year with awards to businesses and institutions.  The Green Business Challenge (GBC) is a voluntary Charleston metro area program aimed at a broad range of local businesses and institutions to promote [...]

We’re excited to have Brady win this award from West Of - You can read the full text below or click here (www.westof.net) to read more.   BRADY QUIRK-GARVAN Although local businessman Brady Quirk-Garvan has lived in Charleston for many years, he just moved to West Ashley three years ago and has worked tirelessly to improve [...]

As our nation takes time to reflect on Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy this weekend we wanted to let you know about a unique event happening in Charleston. For the last two years Brady has served on the Harvey Gantt Triumph Award. Harvey Gantt was born and raised in Charleston, SC. He was the first [...]

Sometimes we like to highlight non-financial projects that might be of interest. Today we wanted to make sure you follow Crystal Zevon’s “Searching For Occupy” as it will undoubtably be an exciting journey. Crystal was kind enough to mention us in her post on day 1 and we couldn’t be more excited. Blog Post: http://michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/searching-occupy-first-day-road Official [...]

We continue to read that bond returns will likely take a significant impact, especially if the ‘fiscal cliff’ occurs, and more especially when interest rates begin to increase.  We ‘know’ that the federal government’s intent is to keep interest rates as low as possible for the next 3 years; we know that mortgage rates hit [...]

On Thursday South Carolina joined a growing number of states that have enacted Benefit Corporation legislation. South Carolina is the second state in the South to have passed such a forward thinking law. A benefit corporation is a new class of corporation that voluntarily meets higher standards of corporate purpose, accountability, and transparency. As one [...]

SLOW MONEY – South Carolina has started organizing to have a ‘Slow Money’ chapter established, and has it’s next meeting on May 22 @ 5:30 p.m. at Jericho Advisors.  Given the strong entrepreneurial environment in the area, and the strong presence of ‘LowCountry Local First‘, a BALLE chapter, ‘Slow Money’ is expected to be very [...]

NEWS FLASH – NY Pension Fund managers urge all shareholders to vote against the re-election of 5 Wal-Mart directors, due to concern about their alleged roles in ‘acceptable bribery’ probe going on in Mexico. We recently participated in a shareholder action with IBM. Read more about it here.