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What's Going On With ESG? - Episode 83
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ESG investing may be going through a bit of a rocky patch, these days, but the investment tool is hardly dead. Rather, the importance of ESG non-financial reporting is more important than ever as stakeholders are looking for the potentially critical externalities that a company's business practices may play.
In this episode, Paul discusses a bit of why ESG has seen an increasing outflow of investment funds recently - while unwrapping where the investment thesis may have gone wrong in trying to tackle these challenges. And he'll end with a perspective on how and why the ESG of the future may look a bit different than what we have today.
For more research:
"ESG investing is dying on Wall Street. Here’s why" - CNN
"ESG Turns 20: A Brief History, and Why It’s Not Going Away" - Morningstar
"Here's why we must not lose sight of the importance of ESG, despite the recent backlash" - World Economic Forum
"What’s Next For ESG?" - Forbes
"The unsustainable hype around ESG" - The Financial Times
"BlackRock's Fink says he's stopped using 'weaponised' term ESG" - Reuters
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