Finance for Future: Recent Episodes
Finance for Future
Finance for Future is a podcast about sustainable investing for retail investors. It’s a series of talks and interviews with professionals in finance and sustainability. Hosts Zsofi and Quynh ask the hard questions around greenwashing and look into sustainability definitions and metrics. Their mission is to demystify sustainability and debunk common misconceptions around it. There is such lack of transparency in this sector and there is no silver bullet for sustainable investing: you will have to do your own research and they will show you how.
In this episode, we take our first steps towards sustainable investing.
We talk about simple and cheap ways to invest in sustainable products such as pension funds, broker sites, investment manager sites.
We signed up at a digital investment manager platform to see how sustainability is presented in the products.
We then used additional tools such as justetf.com and the MSCI ESG rating tool to dig deeper.
Source
https://www.justetf.com/
https://www.msci.com/our-solutions/esg-investing/esg-ratings/esg-ratings-corporate-search-tool
Music written by Quynh
For more information visit our website at https://finance4future.io/
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In this episode we talk about the challenges of finding truly green investment products.
Marika Stocker, a millennial, joins us from Sustainalytics, a market leading company that provides ESG ratings. She shares her personal journey of finding green investments and we talk about what greenwashing means.
Zsofi and Quynh then discusses whether millennials are ready to invest time and effort into sustainability.
Source
https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/esg-assets-may-hit-53-trillion-by-2025-a-third-of-global-aum/
https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/07e7a7d3-59c3-4d0b-b0b5-029e8fd3974b
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/millennial-investment-trends-watch-out-for-huge-wealth-transfer.html
https://www.robeco.com/uk/key-strengths/sustainable-investing/glossary/greenwashing.html
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/05/22/sustainable-finance-is-rife-with-greenwash-time-for-more-disclosure
Music written by Quynh
For more information visit our website at https://finance4future.io/
Follow up on instagram @finance4future.io
In this episode we talk about Greta Thunberg and climate actions, we discover how ESG assets grew from hippie - investor passion to a major asset class.
More in detail: we look at the Paris Agreement and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
We talk with Peter Csardas, a millennial, who has been building expertise in sustainable investments and who explained us the 4 strategies asset managers use to make an investment sustainable:
Exclusion: simply exclude companies or industries such as tobacco, fossil fuel companies
Best in class: for each industry, look at the best performers in terms of financial returns, then choose the best companies based on sustainability goals
ESG integration: use both financial and ESG metrics for selection
Impact investing: primary goal is sustainability
We learn about ESG ratings and how sustainable indexes are created.
Peter also shares with us that ESG investment can outperform normal investing in the long run, as companies with sustainability goals are most probably better at managing long term risks.
Source
http://www.gsi-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GSIR-20201.pdf
https://www.robeco.com/de/unsere-expertise/sustainable-investing/glossary/paris-agreement.html
https://www.robeco.com/de/unsere-expertise/sustainable-investing/glossary/eu-sustainable-finance-disclosure-regulation.html
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en
Music written by Quynh
For more information visit our website at https://finance4future.io/
Follow up on instagram @finance4future.io