Simply put, equity describes an investor's direct ownership interest in an asset, excluding all other claims. A familiar example is home equity, which is the value of your home after you subtract ...

There are many words that in the financial lexicon you probably understand in a general sense. But if you're serious about investing, it helps to be specific about certain terms, one of which is ...

Civil rights protests and the disparities revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic propelled a movement toward racial equity in 2020. Major corporations began to acknowledge that traditional diversity goals ...

A very helpful and interesting paper by my colleague Sam Bray — one of the nation’s top remedies scholars — which he kindly agreed to let me pass along (also available in PDF here): equity, n. Equity ...