Fidelity Monitor’s Jack Bowers on being a climate realist, and optimist, too

By Trey Thoelcke Updated Jun 22, 1:21PM EDT · Published Jun 22, 4:20AM EDT

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(Mark Hulbert, an author and longtime investment columnist, is the founder of the Hulbert Financial Digest; his Hulbert Ratings audits investment newsletter returns.)

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Callaway Climate Insights) — Is it possible to be both realistic about the threat posed by global warming and, nevertheless, also optimistic?

Jack Bowers thinks so. He is editor of the Fidelity Monitor and Insight advisory newsletter. According to my investment performance auditing firm, his equity-oriented model portfolios have on average beaten a broad stock market index fund by 1.2 annualized percentage points over the past 35 years. That’s better than the vast majority of investment advisers across Wall Street. (See full disclosure note at the end of this column about how my auditing firm is compensated.)

I was particularly drawn to Bowers’ analysis because optimism is a rare commodity among those who work on mitigating climate change. To many it seems that there’s little to no hope, in fact. Many are even deciding not to have children because the future is so doomed. You’re accused of burying your head in the sand to even entertain the possibility that not all hope is lost…

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Trey has been an editor and author at 24/7 Wall St. for more than a decade, where he has published thousands of articles analyzing corporate earnings, dividend stocks, short interest, insider buying, private equity, and market trends. His comprehensive coverage spans the full spectrum of financial markets, from blue-chip stalwarts to emerging growth companies.

Beyond 24/7 Wall St., Trey has created and edited financial content for Benzinga and AOL's BloggingStocks, contributing additional hundreds of articles to the investment community. He previously oversaw the 24/7 Climate Insights site, managing editorial operations and content strategy, and currently oversees and creates content for My Investing News.

Trey's editorial expertise extends across multiple publishing environments. He served as production editor at Dearborn Financial Publishing and development editor at Kaplan, where he helped shape financial education materials. Earlier in his career, he worked as a writer-producer at SVE. His freelance editing portfolio includes work for prestigious clients such as Sage Publications, Rand McNally, the Institute for Supply Management, the American Library Association, Eggplant Literary Productions, and Spiegel.

Outside of financial journalism, Trey writes fiction and has been an active member of the writing community for years, overseeing a long-running critique group and moderating workshop sessions at regional conventions. He lives with his family in an old house in the Midwest.