About Paul Kedrosky
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| Dr. Kedrosky is currently the Executive Director of the William J. von Liebig Center in San Diego, California. Using an innovative seed capital program, the Center catalyzes the commercialization of technologies from the internationally-ranked University of California, San Diego. Dr. Kedrosky is also a venture investor with Ventures West, Canada's largest institutional venture capital firm, where he is most active in consumer technologies and software. He is currently on the board of Marqui Corporation, a marketing automation software company. |
Recent Article:
Calculating Carbon-Levered Earnings
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In thinking about higher oil prices today, and in scanning an interesting related story at Institutional Investor about proxies demanding more information on public company carbon usage, I got to wondering about something:
In the same way that hedge funds are being urged toward more transparency on how much of their alpha is tied to leverage, how long will it be until companies are pushed to do the same thing with oil?
Wouldn't you like to know how carbon- (or oil-) levered your favorite stock's profits are?
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