Meghan and Royal Family ****e

We can see who wears the jock strap.
The headline should say, The World's Most Influential Person.
Harrys more the accessory, the manbag if you will.

 

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Harry's hair looking unusually thick too. Has he had a Rooney?

 

Airbrush rather than hairbrush...

 

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| BREAKING: Prince Harry may name the royal ‘racist’ in his new £15m book

 

Obviously kept the name back to push the fee up for his book, or am I just a cynical old git?...

 

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Meghan and Harry's 'sustainable' investment firm Ethic has shares in Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, a manufacturer of laser-guided bombs and scores of oil companies - but it insists that DOESN'T make them hypocrites

• The Sussexes have been appointed 'impact partners' at Ethic, based in New York, and put in their own cash
• Ethic claims it will only invest investors' cash in businesses it believes passes its 'social responsibility criteria'
• Documents in US show Ethic has invested millions in social media giants, tech giants and big pharma firms
• Ethic's customers also hold stock in oil and gas sector and automotive industry including GM and Toyota
• Business was founded in New York by Briton Jay Lipman and Australian bankers Doug Scott and Johny Mair

By MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER and NICK CRAVEN FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 01:06 AEDT, 16 October 2021 | UPDATED: 04:09 AEDT, 16 October 2021

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Some of the companies that Meghan and Harry-backed 'sustainable' Wall Street firm has investments in
FOX CORPORATION

The parent company of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News

W&T OFFSHORE

A Houston-based company engaged in exploration, development and acquisition of oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico

RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES

The Massachusetts-based group is the second largest U.S. defense contractor and the second largest in the world

B2GOLD

A Canadian company that operates gold mines in Namibia, Mali and the Phillipines

OIL STS INTL INC

An American multinational corporation providing services to oil and gas companies.

BAKER HUGHES COMPANY

One of the world's largest oil field services companies

ALASKA AIR GROUP INC

Group owns Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air and ground handling company, McGee Air Services.

GENERAL MTRS CO

One of the world's biggest motor companies including Chevrolet, Buick, GMC & Cadillac

ONE GAS INC

Provides natural gas distribution services to more than 2 million customers in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.

NATIONAL FUEL GAS CO

Distributes and transports natural gas to hundreds of thousands of customers in Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania.

HONDA MOTOR LTD

Leading Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles and a major producer of automobiles for the world market

TOYOTA MOTOR CORP

Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 million vehicles per year.

ATMOS ENERGY CORP

Atmos Energy Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is one of the United States' largest natural-gas-only distributors

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle owns shares in Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corp and the makers of the world's most deadly laser-guided bombs.

SEC filings from August also reveal that Ethic has ploughed millions of dollars into oil, gas, mining companies, airlines, as well as firms that so-called ethical investment guides rate poorly including Amazon and the owners of Boots the chemists.

Among the investments are $216,000 worth of shares in Raytheon which boasts that its Paveway laser guided bombs made up more than half the ordinance dropped on Iraq during the American invasion.

Ethic has defended itself against charges of hypocrisy despite its branding that leans heavily on the language of left-wing political activism on issues such as climate change and fighting global poverty.

It claims it is different from other 'ethical' investment funds because it lets customers choose their political priorities for investments and provides them with custom portfolios to match.

A spokeswoman provided the example of a customer whose primary concern is 'poverty' - saying 'of course certain pharmaceutical companies would be flagged for removal (and they are for many of our clients due to drug pricing issues).'

But some of the holdings among its $1.3bn under management are in sharp contrast with the Sussexes' green campaigning, with Harry writing in the Washington Post just today that firms must stop 'pillaging' Africa for oil in countries such as Botswana where he and Meghan had 'found sanctuary'.

Today royal expert Penny Junor said their backing of Ethic could mean 'life is going to be very difficult for Meghan and Harry', adding it is 'asking for trouble' and 'setting themselves up for a fall'.

Announcing their role as 'chief impact officers' for Ethic, the couple said that they want to 'rethink the nature of investing to help solve the global issues we all face'.

But amid claims the stocks make them and the company given royal approval appear hypocritical, a spokesman for Ethic insisted their job is to create an investment portfolio based on what their customer wants - not their own ethics.

This is despite the Wall Street firm boasting that it creates 'personalized sustainability solutions to help investors transition money toward companies that treat people and the planet with respect'.

Ethic has bought $539,000 worth of shares in Fox Corp - part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire that includes Fox News - the bogeyman of American left whose presenters have been critical of the Sussexes and their treatment of the Royal Family.

Harry complained in January of this year about a 'Murdoch newspaper' and its coverage of he and Meghan's departure from social media.

Tucker Carlson famously calls Harry 'Prince whatever his name is' and Meghan Markle: 'His angry wife in Los Angeles.'

While in May star host Sean Hannity called out Prince Harry after he infuriated many Americans by calling the First Amendment 'bonkers'. He said: 'I have a message for Harry, who is now attacking one of America's most sacred rights, the freedom of speech: Harry, we really don't need you coming from England to give us lectures on the First Amendment'.







The investment may be a shock to Harry, who has accused News Corp's newspapers of spreading fake news about him and Meghan and sued Mr Murdoch's British tabloid The Sun during the phone hacking scandal.

The Duke of Sussex's plethora of new jobs also includes a role at Aspen Institute's Commission on Information Disorder – a group designed to fight misinformation also backed by Kathryn Murdoch, the wife of Rupert Murdoch's son James, who resigned from his father's media empire last year blaming his own growing discomfort over the 'toxicity' of Fox News.

Ethic's clients also hold stock in Raytheon, which makes billions a year in weapons sales and just last month tested its latest hypersonic missile, capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound and dubbed 'a death sentence' for anything it strikes.

Raytheon makes Paveway laser guided bombs that the company says are' precision-guided weapons used in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and Unified Protector', Sidewinder missiles and a host of other munitions.

Also among the holdings are small amounts of shares in Gulf of Mexico oil exploration company W&T Offshore and mining company B2Gold that operates gold mines in Namibia and Mali.

Ethic holds shares in both Amazon and Walgreens, owners of high street chemist Boots, both of which scored 0 points out of 15 for ethical values, according to British-based Ethical Consumer magazine.

Many other well-known firms fared little better against the strict parameters covering environmental impact, human rights and social justice, set by Ethical Consumer.

The organisation has called for a complete boycott against Amazon since 2012 for its 'outrageous tax avoidance'. It also criticised the company in July 2021 over its alleged poor treatment of Chinese workers as well as and policies on toxic chemicals in clothing and electronics.

Walgreens Boots Alliance's poor score was allegedly down to its environmental reporting, its policy on sale of tobacco in its shops in the US and its policy on the use of toxic chemicals, in the Ethical Consumer report published in February 2020.

Coffee giant Starbucks managed an 'ethiscore' of 1 out of a possible 15, according to Ethical Consumer. Their critcisms, published in October 2018, included the sale of 'factory farmed animal products', 'excessive' directors' pay and concerns over 'tax avoidance' as the company had subsidiaries in areas considered tax havens such as Singapore.

Spanish-owned High Street Bank Santander scored 3.5 out of 15 in February 2021 and was marked down for itself holding shares in many companies criticised over their poor showing on ethical investment, as well as backing criticised fossil-fuel extraction projects in south America and elsewhere.

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Meghan and Harry are becoming 'impact partners' and investors at sustainable investing firm Ethic. The co-founders of Ethic, Johny Mair (pictured left) and Jay Lipman, say they 'love hippies' to invest with them, because the team consider themselves hippies too. Today more revelations about the shares they buy for customers emerged

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Ethic's wealthy clients hold stock in News Corp, who own Fox News (Tucker Carlson left), US guided missile maker Raytheon (centre) and various oil and gas firms working in the Gulf of Mexico (right)

Ethic was founded in 2015 by Briton Jay Lipman and Australian friends Doug Scott and Johny Mair (pictured left to right). All three worked investment banking, including funds investing in oil, before setting up their $1.3billion fund in New York

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The top 50 stock holdings held by Ethics' 1,000 wealthy clients
APPLE INC $45m

MICROSOFT CORP $40m

AMAZON $29m

ALPHABET INC $21m

NVIDIA CORPORATION $10m

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INC $9m

PAYPAL $8m

HOME DEPOT INC $8m

ADOBE SYSTEMS $8m

MASTERCARD $7m

COMCAST $7m

VERIZON $7m

FACEBOOK INC $6.9m

MERCK & CO $6m

AT&T INC $6m

DANAHER CORPORATION $6m

VISA $6m

ACCENTURE $5m

PEPSICO $5,8m

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC INC $5,8m

BROADCOM INC $5,6m

CISCO SYS INC $5,5m

NIKE $5,5m

SALESFORCE COM INC $5,4m

BANK OF AMERICA CORP $5m

INTEL $4,9m

AMGEN INC $4,8m

AMERICAN EXPRESS $4,4m

MONDELEZ INTL $4,3m

APPLIED MATLS INC $4,3m

INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC $4,2m

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHS $4,1m

QUALCOMM INC $3,9m

PRUDENTIAL FINL INC $3,9m

EMERSON ELEC CO $3,8m

ORACLE CORP $3,7m

PNC FINL SVCS GROUP INC $3,7m

S&P GLOBAL INC $3,6m

MORGAN STANLEY $3,6m

CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS INC $3,5m

LAUDER ESTEE COS INC $3,5m

DEERE & CO $3,5m

ZOETIS INC $3,5m

INTUIT $3,4m

SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO $3,4m

TARGET CORP $3,4m

GILEAD SCIENCES INC $3,4m

SCHWAB CHARLES CORP $3,3m

Prince Harrywhile hanging out at the couple's £10millionLAmansion helped seal the deal, his British family exclusively told MailOnline.

The couple have invested in Ethic, set up in 2015 with two Australian friends by Briton Jay Lipman, who went to a £37,000-a-year private school in Epsom, Surrey, before moving to New York to work for Deutsche Bank after a gap year where he travelled throughIndia and developed a passion for tuk-tuk racing.

Harry and Jay both men share a passion for rugby and the environment and Mr Lipman also grew up just 20 miles from Eton College, the elite boarding school the Duke of Sussex attended with his brother Prince William.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Jay's mother Mayrilyn, 70, said her son was a successful Wall Street banker living a 'lavish' life in New York before moving toCaliforniato launch the start-up after telling her he was 'very disgruntled at the fat cats getting fatter'.

She revealed she was in the dark about the Sussexes investing in his $1.3billion (£1bn) fund and said: 'I knew something big was happening, but I had no idea that Harry and Meghan were getting involved. But nothing surprises me about Jay, he's gone from strength to strength since leaving school.'

Mrs Lipman, who describes herself as an 'ardent Royalist' revealed that Jay, 33 was introduced to Harry and Meghan more than a year ago in New York through friends. He then continued to meet the Sussexes as a personal and professional relationship developed with them and even visited them at their home in Montecito, California.

She said: 'There's great banter between Jay and Harry because they have very similar interests. I wouldn't say they're close friends, but they have a good connection. But Jay is very humble, he's not the sort of guy who would brag about it. Now that Harry and Meghan are involved people will sit up and take a lot more notice of Ethic.'

Jay's tree surgeon brother, Stef, 37, who with his younger sibling bears more than a striking resemblance to Prince Harry, revealed: 'Jay and I have always been into nature, saving animals and saving the planet. I would describe myself as a tree hugger, but Jay doesn't have time to hug trees. But he has a huge passion for life, and it would be accurate to say he's a fun-loving hippie banker. He might not say it himself but that's what he is.'

'Hippy' investment firm Ethic working with Harry and Meghan












Jay's mother Marilyn and eldest son Stef, 37, spoke to MailOnline today and said: 'He's a fun-loving hippie banker. He might not say it himself but that's what he is'

Jay attended exclusive Epsom College, where fees cost up to £37,000 a year and was brought up in a grand £1.25million home on one of the nicest streets in the Surrey town.

Marilyn, who is divorced from her husband David revealed that Jay and Stef became vegans about four years ago.

She joked: 'Perhaps it was my cooking? But when he and Stef were younger, I cooked them meat and fish, which they both ate. But for Jay, things slowly started changing and when he got into saving the planet more, he became a vegan.

'He's always been very conscious of the environment and wouldn't so much as drop litter as a child.'

She went on 'Jay loves nature, all animals and wants to save the planet. That's what motivates him.

'He was previously working at Deutsche Bank but he hated it and was very disgruntled at the fat cats getting fatter. He was living in a very lavish apartment in New York and getting paid very well. Then one day he told me: 'Mum, I've just handed in my notice. I'm going to San Francisco to do my own start up.'

She added: 'He's ten times happier now because he's doing something that's changing the world for the better. Jay has been wanting to do this for years'.

His father was a successful businessman with Stef recalling their idyllic childhood which involved sport, nature and animals.

Stef smiled: 'As kids were were into nature a lot and Jay loved rugby. We were not video games kids.

'We grew up in Epsom and were always out in the woods. That's what we enjoyed the most, being in nature and enjoying the environment. We always had dogs and cats as pets and if there was an injured bird, Jay and I would want to save it. To be honest, we preferred animals to humans.'

After leaving school, Jay took a gap year where he went to teach in an orphanage in Tanzania; climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and also went on a guerrilla trek.

In 2006, he returned to the UK to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Edinburgh University and then two years later, transferred to the UCLA. In between his studies, he also travelled around India on a bus and took part in various adventures such as tuk-tuk racing.

Jay was headhunted by Deutsche Bank while in the US and joined the company soon after leaving university having earned two degrees.

Marilyn said that she had no plans to travel to the US to meet Jay and that her head has not been turned by his new association with Harry and Meghan. Stef is due to go out to see his brother later this year.

Ethic's meetings with 'gratitude sessions' where staff thank each other for their hard work and can pet the office dog given the title 'Chief Smile Officer', it was revealed today.

The New York-based fintech asset manager has a laid back workplace common in tech firms on the west coast of the US, and says it helps its investors prioritise investments that they deem acceptable on grounds such as environmental and social goals,

It announced announced yesterday they had appointed the Sussexes as their 'impact partners', the couple's latest move in their efforts to build what experts believe could be a $1billion brand in the US after quitting theRoyal Family for independence and to earn their own money.

Business experts declared themselves flummoxed at what an 'impact partner' is, although the best guess seemed to be a super-charged brand ambassador.

The Sussexes have not said how much of their fortune they have invested in the £1.3billion investment fund, having been introduced to the founders by a mutual friend.

Ethic, which was set up by Briton Jay Lipman - a red-haired Prince Harry lookalike from London now settled in the US having worked for Deutsche Bank - 'loves hippies' to invest with them, because the team, several of whom worked for JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, consider themselves hippies too.

Today MailOnline can reveal that Mr Lipman is a former public schoolboy at exclusive Epsom College, where fees cost up to £37,000 a year. He was brought up in a grand £1.25million home on one of the nicest streets in the Surrey town.

Mr Lipman makes no mention of his privileged schooling on LinkedIn or his social media accounts, but a recent profile said he went to a 'high school outside London' - but failed to mention it was one of Britain's most exclusive private schools that has educated a host of famous names including comedian Tim Vine and his broadcaster brother Jeremy, actor Tyger Drew-Honey and billionaire property tycoon brothers Christian and Nick Candy.

Mr Lipman's co-founders are Australians Doug Scott and Johny Mair, who worked for banks investing in gas and oil amongst other things before they formed Ethic in 2015. Also included in its ranks are a number of dogs, including Roux and Gigi, apparently responsible for 'security', and Byron, who is named 'Chief Smile Officer'.

The animals regularly attend team meetings, which begin with encouraging staff to 'throw out a thank-you to someone who helped them that week'. 'It gives everyone a chance to highlight each other's contributions and feel good about the work being done,' a post on the site says.

The company website lists its many team members from countries across the globe, all striking a different pose in quirky GIFs alongside personal thoughts on what sustainability means to them.


Harry and Meghan's latest move into big business came after their deals with Netflix and Spotify worth £100million and the couple announced their latest tie-up with a statement that said: 'When we invest in each other we change the world'.

And in a joint interview with the New York Times, Meghan, a multi-millionaire former actress who lives with her royal husband and children in a $14million LA mansion, said: 'From the world I come from, you don't talk about investing, right? You don't have the luxury to invest. That sounds so fancy.'

She added: 'My husband has been saying for years: 'Gosh, don't you wish there was a place where if your values were aligned like this, you could put your money to that same sort of thing?',' adding the couple were introduced to Ethic by friends. It is not yet known how much they invested 'earlier this year' or if they are both being paid a salary for their 'impact partner' roles.

Ethic claims to only invest in businesses that meet its 'social responsibility criteria', including on racial justice, climate change and workplace standards such as gender equality and fair pay.

Mr Lipman, a University of Edinburgh graduate, claims clients make just as much money with them as those putting money into more traditional portfolios including fossil fuels and tobacco companies.

Mr Scott, who worked in investment banking at Deutsche Bank, was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 and raised by 'two forward-thinking social and environmental activists', according to Ethic's website.

Meanwhile Mr Mair, who studied Mechanical Engineering at Queensland University of Technology, has led product teams at a number of 'high-growth startups' including Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Fidelity, Guy Carpenter and Goldman Sachs.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have already signed major deals with Netflix and Spotify thought to be worth in excess of £100 million after quitting as senior working royals and moving to the US in a quest for personal freedom and to earn their own money.

In March he told Oprah he was forced to flee to Canada and make multi-million pound deals with Spotify and Netflix after he claimed the Royal Family 'literally cut me off financially' after the couple quit in January 2020.

Harry also has a number of other jobs, including at a California-based mental health start-up whose value has now topped £3billion after securing new funding from some of Silicon Valley's biggest players.

BetterUp, which took on theDuke of Sussexas 'chief impact officer' in March, has raised £220million from investors, valuing the company at around £3.4billion. One of the leaders of the funding round was Iconiq Capital, a secretive investment firm which has managed the money of tech billionaires includingFacebookbossMark ZuckerbergandTwitterfounder Jack Dorsey.

Now the Sussexes have become 'impact partners' and investors at sustainable investing firm Ethic.

Jay Lipman, the British co-founder of Ethic, recently said in a video on their website that they 'like hippies' as a company and considered themselves hippies too despite managing a $1billion fund.

Harry and Meghan's Archewell website confirmed their latest business partnership, linking to a New York Times story which featured the headline 'Harry and Meghan Get into Finance'.

The Archewell website said: 'When we invest in each other we change the world...'

It added: 'We believe it's time for more people to have a seat at the table when decisions are made that impact everyone.

'We want to rethink the nature of investing to help solve the global issues we all face.'

Ethic's website said it aims to empower wealth advisors and investors to create portfolios that align personal values with financial goals.

The Sussexes hope their involvement will encourage young people to be conscious of the sustainability of their own investments.

Harry told the New York Times: 'You already have the younger generation voting with their dollars and their pounds, you know, all over the world when it comes to brands they select and choose from.'

The couple's Archewell website highlighted their latest business venture, linking to the New York Times' story which featured the headline 'Harry and Meghan Get into Finance'

The Queen's grandson Harry and former Suits star Meghan acknowledged that not everyone could afford to invest money.

'When we invest in each other we change the world...' the Archewell site said.

'Be it through the investment of time (as with mentoring), investment in community (as with volunteering), or the investment of funds (for those who have the means to), our choices-of how and where we put our energy-define us as a global community.'

Ethic said it was thrilled to be welcoming the couple.

Harry and Meghan 'share a lot of values with us, and we suspect, with many of you as well.

'That's why we're so excited that they're joining us as impact partners,' a statement on its website said.

It said the Sussexes wanted to 'shine a light on how we can all impact the causes that affect our communities'.

'They're deeply committed to helping address the defining issues of our time-such as climate, gender equity, health, racial justice, human rights, and strengthening democracy and understand that these issues are inherently interconnected,' it added.

'So much so, in fact, that they became investors in Ethic earlier this year and have investments managed by Ethic as well.

Ethic, which was founded in 2015, has $1.3billion under management and creates separately managed accounts to invest in social responsibility themes. It aims to empower wealth advisers and investors to create portfolios that align personal values with financial goals.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle descended on the Big Apple in late September, and this may have been when the deal was done. Some observers compared the New York trip to a royal visit, which Meghan and Harry had wanted to leave behind.

While in NYC they were given the A-list treatment, being chaperoned around by a large security detail as they mingled with UN officials and New York politicians and stayed in a hotel where rooms cost up to $8,800 a night.

 

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Harry and Meghan’s Archewell foundation pledges to be net zero by 2030

 

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...and when he picked up the phone, she said: "Hello, the is the Duchess of Sussex."

 

Apparently Harry & Meghan offered up a video for COP26 encouraging countries to do more.
. It was refused.
Bless.

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