There is no guarantee that dividends will be paid. A fund's ESG investment strategy may result in the fund investing in securities or industry sectors that underperform the market as a whole or underperform other funds screened for ESG standards. These risks often are heightened for investments in emerging/ developing markets or in concentrations of single countries.Ī fund's environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) investment strategy limits the types and number of investment opportunities available to the fund and, as a result, the fund may underperform other funds that do not have an ESG focus. International investing involves risks, including risks related to foreign currency, limited liquidity, less government regulation and the possibility of substantial volatility due to adverse political, economic or other developments. There is no guarantee that any strategies discussed will be effective. Zoom suffered growing pains at the start of the pandemic as a surge in users to its platform exposed significant security flaws - not only in how people were virtually able to step into others’ online meetings, a phenomenon that earned the moniker “Zoombombing,” but also gain access to recordings of meetings and even individual computer and network systems.įor its part, Zoom has sought to address the concerns, bringing on a slate of technology experts who have beefed up encryption and also changed around the platform's interface to allow users to add on more features that can screen, mute and kick off participants, and also allow users to report bad activity and security breaches.ĭespite significant competition from the likes of Microsoft ( MSFT) - Get Report, Google ( GOOGL) - Get Report, Facebook's ( FB) - Get Report WhatsApp and Ring Central ( RNG) - Get Report, Zoom has continued to be the communication platform of choice, leading to record sales and earnings, and in turn analyst upgrades.The strategies discussed are strictly for illustrative and educational purposes and are not a recommendation, offer or solicitation to buy or sell any securities or to adopt any investment strategy.

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