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Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Morningstar Research (Thailand), a unit of the American financial services company, recently revealed the top five global equity funds in terms of returns for the past three years and year-to-date, with most focusing on investing in mega trend themes.

Our list of the best stocks to buy now reflects the lesson of the past few years: Be ready for anything.

Oil funds offered the highest cumulative return in 2022 of 14.6%, topping the list for the second year in a row, while technology funds were the main laggard, with a negative return of 43.5%, according to investment research and financial services firm Morningstar.

In response to House Republicans’ plans to use their new majority to investigate the ESG movement, three Democratic senators penned an op-ed accusing their GOP colleagues of overstepping. The three senators—Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)—also accused Republicans who oppose ESG of being anti-capitalist:

Climate conscious investors have channeled billions of dollars into clean energy but investment flows into protecting and better managing the world's ecosystems remain minute by comparison.

Ald. Ray Lopez said he believes the contribution from billionaire Joe Mansueto, founder of Morningstar, Inc., “represents a gross & familiar abuse of power and, at minimum, a potential violation” of the city’s ethics ordinance.

Marie Trzupek Lynch founded the job placement organization in 2012 and now has it on a national expansion campaign.

Morningstar Research (Thailand) projects US inflation to drop sharply in the first half of next year, saying the Federal Reserve is doing more than is required to bring inflation back to 2%.