An announcement, without preamble

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Beloved investors of this generation

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In front of you 4 forms of capital are gathered

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Financial, Social, Human and Environmental

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And now you all must choose

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Which form contains the most untapped potential

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Which one shall win your funds and adoration

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And which ones, sadly, must lose

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As Financial Capital let me say

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Dear investors I have never led you astray

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So now my friends, let me attest

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Why in myself you should invest

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I’m the gold standard, you can depend

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In me you’ll find your dividends

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Through the boom and the bust

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Through the highs and the lows

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just give me all your trust

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and your market wealth grows

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not long ago I was the new boy on the block

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When finance was the latest thing

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Now everybody’s taking stock

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And you all know the wealth I bring

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Time was when finance was the rarity,

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Resources abundant and money the scarcity

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But how Times have changed, I now number in trillions

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bringing plenty and comfort to untold millions.

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From the east to the south

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From the west to the north

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From all the four corners

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New funds are brought forth

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From Industry, commerce, and trading at port

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To gleaming towers of glass and steel

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Through routers and servers my wares are bought

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And everyone sees finances appeal

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I’ll double your funds, I’ll double your worth

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No need to worry about the earth

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Its limitless growth, untapped potential

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No need to be cautious or prudential

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New money, old money, get rich quick

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They all jump over my candlestick

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I’ve worked out the charts, my figures are right

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Invest in my futures and your futures are bright

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I’m up to date with every scene

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The only colour I see is green

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I care not for race, nor gender nor creed

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I support who you love and take care of their needs.

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Let my Invisible hands caress you

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Let my premiums protect you

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I take the risks, I take the hits

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With finance, everyone respects you!

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I change with the times, from Analog to digital

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Fully customised to every individual

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Whether your coin purse is silver or bit

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Invest in me, I’ll make you a hit!

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Invest in ME. Invest in ME.

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Dear Hiring Manager.

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I am writing in regards to your advertisement. I would like to list for you the top reasons why

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you should hire me….

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I possess a strong work ethic

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Am dependable, committed and loyal.

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I’m adaptable and am an excellent communicator.

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I am self-motivated as well as team orientated…

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I’m…………………………………………human.

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I…

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Was sitting in the boardroom the other day

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A real boys club you could say

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You work so hard for equal pay

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Yet respect is sometimes hard to find when your gender is not the same as mine.

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Perhaps if you took the time,

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To learn about the person behind the face you see,

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You’d realise how much more I could be.

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Allowing me a voice in no way diminishes yours

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It creates room for a more balanced conversation

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After all I make up 50% of the population

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My skills, some different, are just as effective

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I’ll always offer a fresh perspective

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The research is sound,

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I build people up not tear them down

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Flexibility, problem solving and emotional intelligence, I possess

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All I am asking you for is fair access.

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Think of how much more we all could be,

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If you invested in me.

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I…

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Am the IT guy in the office

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And a mathematics tutor at night

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My mental sum game is unstoppable

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All this and I’m handicapable

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My colleagues love to joke and jab

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And this would all be fine

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If they weren’t constantly pointing out that I am half blind

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It doesn’t take two eyes to see

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how much more I could be.

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Never defined myself by one feature,

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Instead I’ve always seen it as chance to go further.

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Including me will only lead to greater diversity

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Allowing for creativity and innovation

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Which helps us slay the competition

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Learning about the various accommodations

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Will expand your knowledge about the way different people function

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Empowering and enabling others will always end in celebration

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Think of how much more we all could be,

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If you invested in me.

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I…

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Was told that age is just a number

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Yet when you’re older, they expect you to slumber

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Replacing you with the shiny and new

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Forgetting that my youth was once theirs too

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I remember a time when my voice was fresh and welcome,

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Now, some say its lost momentum.

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Give me the chance and you’ll see how much more I can continue to be.

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Dear hiring manager,

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If you invest in me,

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My diversity is an asset not liabilities

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That it creates a wealth of opportunities

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But first,

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That change has to start with you.

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If you invest in me,

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They will too.

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Invest in Me, and you’ll see, how much more we all could be

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Invest in Me, Invest in Me.

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Hello Investors!

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I see you as a group, the society, not as separate individuals

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That’s why I am called SOCIAL CAPITAL

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Remember what they said when you were kids?

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Be respectful, they said

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Be trustworthy, they said

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Be credible, they said

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Be loyal, they said

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Don’t lie, they said

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Take care of your reputation, they said

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In short, adapt me, be socially good, they said

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And the rest would be taken care of, they said

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Look around, at times you see these are absent

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Makes you wonder if you can make a desired arrangement

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“Of course you can” I say,

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It’s in your hands to make things okay

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Hmm..Checking for harmful ingredients on the packet

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You have done that before, am sure, at the supermarket

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To not be discriminated in life, for others too you desire

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The products hasn’t made someone sick, you hope as a buyer

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Remember the recession?

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The companies that lasted and stayed listed

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Were the ones that cared for social good and committed

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While those that cared solely on finance

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Assuming the rest would follow, failed the chance

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So remember, all that glitters is not really gold

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Thought of a safer future should you uphold

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“How” you ask? Well, I say in me should you invest,

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When you know better, You do better

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It starts with you, the choice is yours

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Oh there are companies/institutions, that are wise

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Not to risk losing their license and to be nice

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They fund for community projects

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And ensure fair working standards

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And you, my friends, I say, should pledge to support to make more possibilities

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Of hope and sincerity I believe, with responsibility

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You can make the difference you want

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Nurture me, foster me, I am all that you need and want

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You know I am a keeper, I would never fail you

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Be smart, to make a conscious choice, that’s on you

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When you know better, You do better

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That’s why I say, in me should you invest!

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I say, Think about it!

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Dear Investors, Social Capital am I,  don’t you jest

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Nurture me, grow me, In me you must invest.

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Invest in Me, invest in Me.

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I am the environment.

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I am the world you live in.

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The air you breathe, the water you drink, the ground beneath your feet.

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I am the fish in the sea and the leaves on a tree.

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I am the environment.

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If you only use me, if you only take from me,

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If you abuse me, you will BREAK ME.

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And when I am destroyed, I will cause DESTRUCTION.

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Yes, I am climate change.

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I am the rising tide. I am the heat of every wildfire, and the drought that cracks the earth.

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For you see, I am finite,

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But I am also infinite.

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Because the earth is an ecosystem with the means to heal itself,

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but only if you give it a chance.

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And the good news is that it’s not too late to mitigate the climate change in advance.

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You could have clean water, and clean air, and a clean, green, healthy earth.

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So if you are wise, listen to my advice and put your money where it’d really be worth.

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Invest in me, and I am renewable energy. Solar power, wind power, hydropower.

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Invest in me, and I am innovative technology, finding new and better ways to use less but

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produce more.

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Invest in me, and I am sustainability. Sustaining life. Sustaining you.

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Did you or did you not invest in the house that you now live in?

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Did you or did you not invest your time, your energy, your money in making it a place you want

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to call home?

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Will you or will you not invest in the world that you now live in?

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Will you or will you not invest your time, your energy, your money in a place that you, your

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children, your grandchildren, and every child that follows will want to and must call a home.

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Invest in a clean and green and healthy earth.

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Invest in the world you live in

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Invest in Me, Invest in Me

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Though your importance is plain to see

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None Of you would thrive without me

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I am the fuel that feeds this fire

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You are free and easy, enjoy the ride, I am no liar. 

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ALL Capitals scream as one.

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Invest in Me, Invest in Me, Invest in Me

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Investors, in Human, Social and Environmental capital we are also vested

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No doubt Financial returns are time tested

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Other capitals we cannot ignore, nor any longer oppress

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Respect all forms of capitals, endow they will, fair returns and progress

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Invest in us, Invest in us, Scream All (Pan) forms of capital

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Invest not in one but all of us

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As Investors evolve and make a change

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PANVEST in us! PANVEST in us

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Why wait?

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Be the change you want to create!