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Finance giants BlackRock and Vanguard seem to be changing their approach to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment strategies, increasingly rejecting shareholder proposals that focus on environmental and social issues.

The Big Three asset managers - BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard - are often lumped together. But a recent report finds they make very different decisions when it comes to voting on environment, social, and governance issues, and that Vanguard's ESG support is half that of its two rivals.

Vanguard is paid by the funds to provide administration and other services. If Vanguard ever did go bankrupt, the funds would not be affected and would simply hire another firm to provide these services.

“We cannot state that [environmental, social and governance] investing is better performance wise than broad index-based investing,” said Buckley. “Our research indicates that ESG investing does not have any advantage over broad-based investing.”

While not all of the households in this study are millionaires, the vast majority of them are. The median household in the study has over $1 million with Vanguard and those below the median have assets outside of Vanguard (i.e. real estate, non-Vanguard accounts, etc.) that make most of them millionaires as well.

In fact, Bolton and his colleagues discovered that both BlackRock and Vanguard tended to vote to the right of the proxy advisors, 'which suggests that they are both less concerned about environmental and social issues and that they tend to side more with management. '

Money market funds and other securities held in the Vanguard Brokerage Account are eligible for SIPC coverage. Securities in your brokerage account are protected up to $500,000. To learn more, visit the SIPC's website. Up to $250,000 by FDIC insurance.

The only way that could happen would be for the value of all of the stocks and/or bonds held by each and every individual Vanguard mutual fund to go to zero. So, forget about Vanguard going bankrupt -- it just isn't going to happen.

Republican politicians have criticized ESG because they say they consider it an effort to use financial tools for the purpose of advancing liberal political goals.

It manages about $7 to $8 trillion dollars for 30 million individual investors and has one of the largest investments in coal. The protests are part of the global Vanguard S.O.S. campaign, which urges Vanguard to use its economic might to force companies to address the climate crisis.

How long will it take to turn 500k into $1 million? The time it takes to invest half turn 500k into $1 million depends on the investment return and the amount of time invested. If invested with an average annual return of 7%, it would take around 15 years to turn 500k into $1 million.